From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 31 14:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFA414C26 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA08995; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:53:56 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA89437; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:53:54 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990401075354.E413@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:53:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , Brad Benson Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) References: <000201be7b31$8f0d9ac0$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <37019498.D4EF2AB8@uswest.net> <000201be7b31$8f0d9ac0$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <19990331142633.O413@lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19990331084816.009099f0@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990331084816.009099f0@mail.bfm.org>; from G. Adam Stanislav on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:48:16AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 31 March 1999 at 8:48:16 -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 14:26 31-03-1999 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That aside, the key feature of Outlook is the remarkable > ability to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> both piss people off with HTML e-mails while being > infected with >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> prank-viruses like Melissa and Happy99. Those Micro$oft > folk are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> geniuses, aren't they? Didn't you mean to quote like this? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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$oft folk are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> geniuses, aren't they? This is exactly the point I wanted to make. If your mail reader wants to limit the length of the line, it should maintain the quote levels, like this: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That aside, the key feature of Outlook is the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> remarkable ability to both piss people off with HTML >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> e-mails while being infected with prank-viruses like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Melissa and Happy99. Those Micro$oft folk are >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> geniuses, aren't they? That's one keystroke under Emacs; you'd expect a purpose-built mailer to be able to do it too. > It has its positive side, too. I used the occasion to place an "editorial" > on my home page explaining that my system was not and will not be infected > by Melissa because it runs on FreeBSD. Then why does it claim this? X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) I checked all mailboxes on my system, but none seems to have received a Melissa. Anybody else? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message