Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:15:45 -0500 From: "Brad Benson" <bradley@softhome.net> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) Message-ID: <000601be7b35$87ff6f20$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> In-Reply-To: <19990331142633.O413@lemis.com>
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> OK, I think we can agree that any Microsoft mailer can fall prey to > worms such as Melissa, and that most problems with Outlook are due to > incorrect configuration. On the other hand, it seems that Outlook > encourages incorrect configuration. I also think that some of its > "features" are brain-damaged. For more details, take a look at > http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html. In particular, if you > can tell me how to stop Outlook from mutilating quoted text from > previous messages, I'll be grateful (and put the explanation on the > web page). What I mean is: how do you get Outlook not to mutilate the > following text when replying? > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That aside, the key feature of Outlook is the remarkable ability to > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> both piss people off with HTML e-mails while being infected with > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> prank-viruses like Melissa and Happy99. Those Micro$oft folk are > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> geniuses, aren't they? > > Greg Like I've said, I'm not a Microsoft fan. One of the biggest reasons for this is that they will try to bend everything to there way. They've changed the standards to everything they've touched. Look at PPP and IE-HTML for examples. The only thing I can say about the wrapping problem is that by default Outlook will insert a new line every 76 characters. This option can be set to what ever you want. If you were to set it to 100 characters it wouldn't mess up the line, but the writer would have to remember to hit enter every 70 or so characters so that the mail could be read on none windows machines. I've tried this here to see if it works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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