At 11:55 AM 12/22/2008, Dave Skolnick wrote:
>Exactly right, but if you have *selected* plain text the software
>*should* fail, not "help" you.

I guess the design committee decided that if you have a plain text 
mentality you will not format your text anyway, but if you make a 
conscious decision to format it then why should the software throw 
roadblocks at you? For instance if formatting is not allowed at all, it 
would make sense to hide any formatting toolbar icons but a lot of less 
savvy users would then wonder why they lost their toolbar.

It is just amazing what an eyesore some emails are when the author 
probably thought he was being creative. Probably went to the ransom 
note school of design.

And the bizarre lengths some go to while inventing their own way of 
separating their comments from original text instead of letting the 
email client handle quoting duties.

Oh well, I now have to go and yell at someone to get off my lawn :-)

-Maurice

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