Marco Fioretti wrote:
Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Out of consideration for all the poor slobs living in technologically
underdeveloped countries
The poor slobs will be delighted of your kind attitude. In any case,
I have explicitly mentioned several ADVANCED, very trendy use cases
where one pays for byte. have you read my message?
Yes, I read your message. Did you read the OP's message? Did you read
the responses? Did you take note of the direction and intent of the
responses?
Let's review:
The OP asked if it was possible to use Writer to edit e-mails in Outlook.
Sophie Gautier advised him to use Thunderbird instead. This is the
typical OS evangelist response to any question mentioning the use of
Outlook or OE. However, it is totally non-responsive to the question
since a) Thunderbird's composition capabilities are about equal to
Outlook's, and b) you can't use Writer to edit emails for Thunderbird
either.
Chuck replied with further explanation of why he wanted to use OOo with
Outlook (and why it needed to be Outlook).
Then Paul *actually answered the question* !! (Unfortunately, the answer
is "No" and there's nothing OOo could do about it even in principle.)
Then Michael Adams suggested using copy-and-paste, which would work, but
I would think it would be cumbersome for daily use. He also has the
honor of being the first to point out the "wrongness" of html email in
general.
Then Shawn Quinn really tears into him. He doesn't even *try* to answer
the question, but merely gives him hell for even wanting to do what he
wants to do.
Finally, Alexandro Colorado and Andrew Brown answer Shawn with a couple
of very good reasons to want to use Writer as an e-mail editor.
Then you started this thread in reply to Alexandro's comment.
Now, here's the thing: One question, three useful replies, and twelve
(well, now thirteen <g>) more completely OT and completely unnecessary
messages mostly spawned by some arrogant responses concerning the
propriety of html e-mail!!
And your point is that people should trim quotes??!! How about if some
people (not necessarily you) got off their high horses, stopped trying
to police the Internet, offered *helpful* responses when they felt
inclined to do so, and sat on their hands otherwise? Seems to me that
would save a few bucks for the poor pay-per-byte folks.
--
Rod
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