From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 30 21:27:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD471512B for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:27:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA05139; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:57:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA87746; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:57:18 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990331145717.Q413@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:57:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Benson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) References: <000701be7b36$4cc9da20$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <000701be7b36$4cc9da20$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob>; from Brad Benson on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:21:15AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 31 March 1999 at 0:21:15 -0500, Brad Benson wrote: > On Wednesday, March 31, 1999 12:16 AM, Brad Benson wrote: > >> OK, I think we can agree that any Microsoft mailer can fall prey to >> worms such as Melissa, and that most problems with Outlook are due to >> incorrect configuration. On the other hand, it seems that Outlook >> encourages incorrect configuration. I also think that some of its >> "features" are brain-damaged. For more details, take a look at >> http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html. In particular, if you >> can tell me how to stop Outlook from mutilating quoted text from >> previous messages, I'll be grateful (and put the explanation on the >> web page). What I mean is: how do you get Outlook not to mutilate the >> following text when replying? >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That aside, the key feature of Outlook is the remarkable ability to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> both piss people off with HTML e-mails while being infected with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> prank-viruses like Melissa and Happy99. Those Micro$oft folk are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> geniuses, aren't they? >> >> Greg > > sorry, I sent this to advocacy instead of chat by accident. > I didn't pay attention to the move. You just needed to do a group reply :-) > Like I've said, I'm not a Microsoft fan. One of the biggest reasons > for this is that they will try to bend everything to there way. > They've changed the standards to everything they've touched. Look > at PPP and IE-HTML for examples. > > The only thing I can say about the wrapping problem is that by > default Outlook will insert a new line every 76 characters. This > option can be set to what ever you want. If you were to set it to > 100 characters it wouldn't mess up the line, but the writer would > have to remember to hit enter every 70 or so characters so that the > mail could be read on none windows machines. I've tried this here > to see if it works. Sure, that works, but it's a workaround, and a barely acceptable one at that. I've been corresponding with users of Microsoft platform mailers (there, Terry!), and they continually run into trouble because they're used to autowrap. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message