Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:53:28 -0800 From: "John M. Purser" <jpurser@wilcofarmers.com> To: "'Sue Blake'" <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: "FreeBSD Newbies (E-mail)" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Let's Try that Again! :-) Message-ID: <01BD5806.323ABC00.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com>
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On Wednesday, March 25, 1998 3:40 PM, Sue Blake [SMTP:sue@welearn.com.au] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 02:15:24PM -0800, John M. Purser wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 25, 1998 1:26 PM, Sue Blake > > [SMTP:sue@welearn.com.au] > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 01:11:14PM -0800, John M. Purser wrote: > > > > To the Community: > > > > > > > > Okay Sue, I've gone to http://www.lemis.com/email.htmlread and > > > > RTFM. > > > > I THINK I've reconfigured MSOutlook to behave. Care to grade me? > > > > > > Hey, that's no fair test! You'll have to quote and reply to this > > > before > > > I > > > can find something decent to pick on. > > > > Not much I can do about long and short lines. It's a formatting > > function > > from when I sent the first one. As the first letter was formatted to X > > > > spaces when I forward the forward I got from you the inserted "> " > > extend > > the line length. Instead of removing the hard returns at the end of > > the > > line new ones are added at X spaces or thereabouts. I don't see a way > > > > out, any solutions out there? > > Your email software (or its editor) is supposed to recognise what is a > quoted paragraph and reformat it accordingly when the line length gets > too > long. Watch what mine does: > > > > Hey, that's no fair test! You'll have to quote and reply to this > > > before > > > I > > > can find something decent to pick on. > > > > Hey, that's no fair test! You'll have to quote and reply to this > > > before > > > I can find something decent to pick on. > > It's not directly your fault. The software seems to be letting you down. > The result is the same: you look like you can't do it, and it gets > progressively harder to read as it's requoted. > > > > > You won't offend anyone here, but others will do their utmost to > > > offend > > > you > > Trust me, sooner or later I offend someone everywhere! ;-) Has anyone > > > > else noticed that the world has been in a bad mood for the last 20 > > years > > or so? > > It has indeed. Everything's getting busier and tolerance is a luxury. > > Do you see this mess before it goes out? Can you fix it then? > Normally I'd reformat before replying if it's not too messed up to be > fixed, > but we're experimenting here. I hope you don't mind. > > > > if you try those mickeysoft tricks in another mailing list. Besides, > > > if > > > other newbies start copying I'll soon be outnumbered, and next thing > > > everyone will be typing secrets to the right of the 80 character > > > limit > > of > > > my > > > text screen. > > If we had any secrets we wouldn't be Newbies! > > > > > John Purser > > OK, the problem's pretty clear in that last section. Some of my words > immediately followed by your response without a break, then your > signature. > The only cues we have are the number of quote marks and the shape of the > text on the screen. In this case, both are wrong and misleading. Just > for > fun, quote this back and we'll see if it gets worse. > > Meanwhile we have to come up with a solution. > Is the software really so braindead that it cannot be beaten into > submission? Is anyone else out there using the same software? Help! > > If you're stuck in windoze for some reason I recommend Pegasus Mail as > one > which can reliably produce email that makes you look good (but it's also > powerful enough to be misused). The best solution of course is to use a > wonderful operating system called FreeBSD which has plenty of good well > behaved software :-) > > Oh, and your grade so far? Ten out of ten for attending to the problem. > Just remind me not to let you choose my software :-) > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > find / -name "*.conf" |more Okay folks, this will get messy! I hear that the Univ. of Washington has ported Pine to Dos. I might get a copy but I'd really rather wait until I get FreeBSD to the point I can do something useful. Right now I can't connect to the Internet (still reading) or even mount my CDROM (device not configured - You loaded from it, how the hell can it not be configured!!!!) Are you telling me that when you reply to a letter you editor removes the ">" and reformats each line? That would be very nice indeed. John Purser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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