And doing so with intent of confusing such clients is ok? True the mail client is not worth the bytes it occupies on the disk, but why hold the (uninformed) people to ransom. If the purpose of this list is to help people with their problems, it is quite possible that they might have to use OE or whatever they have at their disposal to get to the messages in the list (possibly to get to a message that might get them out of their misery).
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Raju Mathur wrote: > >>>>> "Naren" == Naren Devaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Naren> Looks like we don't want people using Outlook Express to > Naren> read LI[HPG] mails. IMHO this might be counterproductive. > > Naren> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Binand Raj S. wrote: > > >> begin quote from rocky g's mail: > Naren> ^^^^^^^ > > Naren> For those who don't know, using a 'begin ' at the beginning > Naren> of a line confuses OE and prevents it from displaying the > Naren> rest of the mail correctly. > > Naren> I do hope people (especially experienced ones) don't > Naren> continue this further. > > I'm not opposed to people using whatever mail client they choose to > read mails (except in an intellectual, laid-back way), but expecting > people to write their messages keeping Outlook users in mind is a bit > too much to expect. The list guidelines are quire clear about what > sort of messages are accepted on the LI-* lists, and as long as a > message meets those guidelines any side effect that it may have in > terms of confusing the hell out of some l*me client, getting you > divorced from your wife, burning your house down or getting your dog > hit by a car is quite immaterial. I may commiserate on a personal > basis, but don't mind my laughing out loud on the side! :-) > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
