On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:28:45PM +0100, Dave Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason most often given is that several of the developers use an email
> client where this isn't necessary
That does make no sense. Wether it's neccessary to trim or not is
determined by etiquette, protocols and your social behaviour, but
certainly not by mutt.
Unless e-mail clients become much more intelligent (intelligent as in: can
compete with me in IQ tests), there is no way that this is not required.
> and in fact is discouraged (i.e. Mutt).
That's simply bullshit. Mutt is widely used, and certainly this is the
only forum where people don't trim their mails (which is not just good
Netiquette, but helpful and polite, too).
Nothing in mutt discourages doing this (mutt doesn't even come with an
editor, for example), and whoever told you that is probably still laughing
about the stupid joke.
What's worse is many mails that are composed like this (not yours, of
course):
> OTOH, you can probably
tell this email was composed in
Outlook Express so
what do I know? ;-)
i.e. leaving out the quote mark, which makes it utterly unreadable. Now,
_that_ is a broken MUA (or editor, or both).
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