Proper ettiquette for posting messages

adunn at micron.com adunn at micron.com
Fri Jan 2 21:58:44 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matt H
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 1:52 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Proper ettiquette for posting messages
> 
> 
> On Friday 02 January 2004 12:59, adunn at micron.com wrote:
> > Do we really want to get into a decent vs indecent mail 
> client?  David's
> > problem is not that he uses Outlook Express, it's that he needs some
> > help in configuring it to work the way that he wants.  
> Outlook Express
> > (and Outlook) works just fine, particularly for those of us 
> who aren't
> > able to use other clients because of various and sundry 
> reasons.  In my
> > case, my employer requires Outlook at work.  But it does 
> work just fine,
> > as you can see.
> 
> NO IT DOESN'T!!! You're entire reply is preceded by a '-- ', 
> which is a 
> signature delimiter. Hence, you're reply may not show if an 
> email client is 
> configured to hide signatures, which many can do.
> 
> Outlook, and Outlook Express are, by definition, very poor products.
> 

Sorry, my bad, I did not delete the three dashes.  Don't blame the
product, blame the user.  And I'm not going to participate in a
flamefest over whether or not Outlook and OE are poor products or not.

Drew Dunn





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