This is not email, this is a web forum. Just because you can post
using an email client does not make it email.


On May 28, 1:06 pm, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote:
> "you should conform on that format"
>
> e-mail is free form. If you don't like the content you can always ban the 
> person from your e-mail list. Unless the person is spamming it seems wrong to 
> ask a person to conform.
>
> On May 28, 2009, at 12:22 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just because (a) YOU use it, and (b) some web site you found likes it
> does NOT mean that it is ACTUALLY most used, OR that their practices
> are right. If you look at 
> this:https://messaging.its.monash.edu.au/stats/client/
> it paints a very different picture -- one in which thunderbird pretty
> much destroys everything else COMBINED. Not that I'm advocating that
> statistic over any other. If thunderbird is anything like firefox (as
> compared against outlook/ie), then it is steadily growing. Amazing
> that Firefox is bigger than the SUM OF ALL version of ie according 
> tohttp://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp-- you'll note
> that browser stats are much easier to gather than email client stats
> -- just need to take a look at the logs on a severely high traffic
> server, like google. Email users tend to group together and don't
> necessarily tend to intermingle making stats VERY difficult to gather.
>
> Oh, and just so you're aware, that site you referenced has TWO sets of
> data, the second one puts YAHOO above outlook. You should also read
> the fine print... that as with anyone else looking at email stats,
> their data is gathered from RESPONSES TO SPAM (or maybe its SPAMMERS),
> but it is some weird group that is not likely to be indicative of
> reality.
>
> In any case, you are posting on a google group. The google software
> will crush the quotes in their particular way, so you should conform
> to that format and ditch your incompatible craplook.
>
> I use Outlook 2007 due to my mail being on an Exchange server. It's a shame 
> your quoting extension can't cope with the quoting mechanism used by the mail 
> client with the largest market share 
> (seehttp://fingerprintapp.com/email-client-stats-All versions of Outlook use 
> a similar quoting system), maybe it's worth updating your code to handle 
> Outlooks quoting as it's not really an edge case in terms of quoting internet 
> emails.
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