Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:14:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wu Jie <wujie@mailhost.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web Page Restrictions Message-ID: <19971125191436.37494@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01bcf97d$4a946a40$49588a0a@wujie.bj.ciet.cn.net>; from Wu Jie on Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 04:36:57PM %2B0800 References: <01bcf97d$4a946a40$49588a0a@wujie.bj.ciet.cn.net>
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On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 04:36:57PM +0800, Wu Jie wrote: > Hi, Greg, > > Unfortunately, you are wrong again. You know why you saw some odd characters > last time in my email? You shouldn't have made any conclusion before careful > investigation. Pulling your hair and biting your nail you can't guess why. > It's not because the **broken configuration** of my **broken mailer**, it's > only because the default character set of my OutLook Express is not English. > Although I prefer FreeBSD and don't like Micro$oft, but OutLook Express is > ok, why not use it? Don't be so biased and cranky. Sorry, Wujie, but that's not correct. We see the same problems in purely US versions of Microsoft Outlook. > Oh, you list so many mailers: "Microsoft Mail", Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla > (Netscape), exmh. Why don't you call Netscape to stop developing its > mailer? Do you think they'd listen to me? They know it's broken, and they're leaving it that way because they're in competition with Microsoft. > It's the world of web now, people get used to hypertext non-line-break > style, what makes you deep immersed in the old command-line-break world? I thought I was on the Internet, not on a private Microsoft network. I will certainly work to keep it that way. On the Internet, the RFCs define what is correct, and these mailers contravene the specifications by reformatting both on sending and on reception. > Greg, I am not, I think Rick Morel is also not, willing to raise an > argument. You could have fooled me. > We just want to say, it's the Internet, the "Blue Ribbon" "free > speech" cyberspace, people have their rights to use whatever style in their > email. OK. Let's accept that. > Please don't send the impolite "i tell you, you should add line > breaks" sentences anymore even if you'd not like to offer help to > the people asking questions. Well, the fact is that I *do* answer a lot of questions. But I'm not doing it any more for people who can't send out a legible mail message. And many of them understand the problem, but don't know that their mailer is broken. In fact, the guy I sent today's message to thanked me for telling him. As for impoliteness, I think you should re-read the message, then re-read yours and Rick's. Greg
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