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From: "Randall R Schulz"
On Monday 18 August 2008 01:53, Neil wrote:
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I think the main difference is that some mail clients support threading while others don't. To reply properly you should know about both.
Yeah, and Mr. White uses Outlook, the worst abomination ever perpertrated by that company in Redmond.
No I don't. I can't stand Outlook. As long as we're being oversensative about points of attribution that have no impact on anyones lives other than to cause dumb arguments on mail lists. I use something even worse, because as a die hard old school unix guy I'm too practical and clueful to waste time downloading thunderbird everywhere, or worse, installing linux desktops, or goofy crap like rebooting every machine I sit in front of to a knoppix thumb drive... But, what's it to you? I configure it to send only in plain text. Any other problems it has are purely my problem. I would have posted that stupid reply that has your pants in a bunch exactly the same way in any interface. And my failure to feel chastised over it, which I'm sure is the real problem, would likewise not have been any different had I been using some holier email client. Whether I am using mutt or pine or one of my own self-witten mua's, or outlook express, or pan or swiftdove or *gag* gmail, at no time am I either confused or constipated by which exact message any particular post in a conversation happens to be technically a reply to, as defined by the message-id's in the header. A conversation is a conversation. It's a human abstract construct. The email systems message tagging system is a somewhat handy tool, but it does not dictate what humans say to each other or when or how or why. At least not me. There is such a thing is nettiquette that helps keep things sane for all concerned, but good grief get over it. It wasn't even a mis-attribution! Your name merely appeared in the post that you had in fact been a part of. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org