>> This is not email, this is a web forum. Just because you can post using an email client does not make it email.
Its all going to be "Google Wave" if you go by the IO keynote today. http://wave.google.com take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz http://androidrocks.googlecode.com - Android Consulting. W. C. Fields <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/w_c_fields.html> - "I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally." On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
