From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 02:49:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B7516A401 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:49:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C0913C441 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:49:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup222.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.222]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l0L2i69U003522 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:45:24 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0L2gQHf002820; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:42:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0L2fF3W002813; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:41:15 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:41:15 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ceri Davies Message-ID: <20070121024114.GA2767@kobe.laptop> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1267327@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20070119152124.GE25249@submonkey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070119152124.GE25249@submonkey.net> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.742, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.46, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Dak Ghatikachalam , freebsd-questions , Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:49:26 -0000 On 2007-01-19 15:21, Ceri Davies wrote: >On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they >> position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the >> text. My editor also positions the cursor at the very top when I >> reply to a message. But it also makes it possible to tidy things >> up. > > To be fair to Microsoft (or perhaps this makes it even worse), their > Mac development team clearly understand this, as Entourage (the Mac > equivalent of Outlook) doesn't do any of the tens of stupid things > that Outlook does. Quite right. I have been talking with some colleagues recently about some of the things that *even* Entourage fails to do (i.e. wrapping of text and quoted material), but it is definitely a huge improvement over Outlook :)