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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Re: OT: Email suggestions? (Was: someone got our mascot! :( )
Am 27. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Ric Fischer so:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:58:27 -0700 (MST), der.hans <> wrote:


> (I'm sorry, but I don't call people or people's work names, I got the
> namecalling out of my system at a young age. Feel free to do so in my
> presence, I don't care. But I won't say them myself.)


I don't surrender to bogus marketing speak. It's either "Solaris 2.8 and
2.9" or "Slowlaris 2.8 and 2.9" it is not "9" and "10" and I don't care
what Sun's marketing people think.

m$ thinks it 0wns words like "word" and "office", but I refuse to surrender
the language to them.

Yeah, futile, but I still have my principles. One is that marketing
shouldn't make decisions for me :).

I understand your point about name calling, but just because someone's
chosen a misappropriate name for themselves doesn't mean I have to honor
it. If someone wants to legally change is name to "Lord and Master" I'm
likely to call him "id10t" :). Corporations have their spin, I have mine.

> > m$ people at work are always having to state how they're showing their
> > stuff because LookOut apparently doesn't do decent mail handling.
>
> "how they're showing their stuff"? I don't understand.


Let's say I'm getting something from J. Doe there would be something like:

<jd>well, what I think....<jd>

or

<jdoe>well, what I think...<jdoe>

or even

### WELL, WHAT i THINK...###

with several other variations. Those that don't do that are worse because
I need to run diff on the email.

Quoting and paragraphing is all hosed to hell.

> > The proper solution, of course, is to not use LookOut.
>
> Absolutely. If only their IT guys would let them switch to something
> else. Problem is, they usually also need connectivity to the Exchange
> server and, with that, all the calendaring, notes, to do's, etc. :-(


Bah, it seems that most of the people I know using things like that are
doing it from home and using pop accounts for email.

How do evolution, thunderbird, kmail, etc. handle quoting from a GUI MUA?

ciao,

der.hans
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