RE: Steve's Tip Of The Day

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brown, Steve wrote:

> > Yes, it does say "X-mailer: internet mail service 5.5.2448.0" in the
> > header of your mail so I can see that you do have a problem :-)

> Indeed. It is without a doubt that M$ Outlook is the worst email client I've
> ever had the mispleasure to use. Sadly it's 'corporate policy'. I even tried
> asking if I could have a POP3 account....

And they refused?  Exchange also has a web interface, I'm sure with some
simple perl LWP:: code or lynx -source in shell scripts you could pull email
out and feed it to $MAIL.

> > I've turned it off.  Netscape mail is the only mailer that I can use

> That's what I use at home out of choice. Not perfect, but a lot closer to
> reality then Outlook. 

I don't actually mind netscape email, which is saying something because I'm
very fussy when it comes to email clients, I've used loads in my time and NS
had enough advantages for me to feel it was on of the top ones.

> *At least NS Mail can quote correctly* ! I hate fighting the way I do to
> make my mails look half presentable.

I'm very impressed at your success in formatting your emails correctly,
Outlook makes life VERY hard to get it right, infact I think it should be
reported as a bug to MS, the options available to you (about 4) don't include
any normal formatting layout.  Most of this list format emails in the age old
Usenet style quoting, used for over 20 years.  Most Outlook users, like 99%
of the BBC :( Quote upside down, making following a thread, or replying very
difficult.

I'm getting more and more worried that the correct way to write and reply to
emails will be lost in the growing wave of new computer owners, with MS's
packaged email client forcing the wrong way on people.

I'm starting to campaign, I've already got example email's in html form for a
website I'll present to the other parts of BBC Technology.

Damion

-- 
Damion Yates - Senior Internet Operations Engineer - Internet Services
email: Damion.Yates [at] bbc.co.uk - phone: +44 1737 839510


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