And it came to pass that Cexy� wrote:
>
> "Cevpx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Yep, that's it in a nutshell. The main deal is some people
>> don't like to be forced to do certain things. Back to the
>> topic of HTML as an alternative posting format; I think
>> many people feel it was forced on the scene by Microsoft
>> with no regard for established traditions. So, even though
>> it might be an advancement, the negative first impression
>> has doomed it from the start. To make matters worse,
>> Outlook Express has a serious bug with text quoting which
>> makes people look like kooks when they reply to Usenet
>> posts. It also makes it very difficult to read some of the
>> replies coming from people using Outlook Express. Most of
>> them aren't even aware of this because the formatting bug
>> does its dirty work after the user hits send so unless they
>> download and read their own posts from the server they
>> won't see the mess Outlook Express made of their post.
>> This is not something new, it has been a known bug for
>> several years and if that's not bad enough the OE software
>> folks at Microsoft ignore complaints about this. I read
>> somewhere that they have no intention of EVER fixing their
>> program. Ain't that something? Probably because Microsoft
>> knows they don't have to fix it.
>
> Well I would think if enough users complained Microsoft
> *would* fix the OE Bug. So that leads me to believe based
> on what I have read elsewhere that more folks are either
> using OE or they don't care. Has a study ever been
> conducted to nail down just how many use OE as their
> newsreader of Choice verses Plaintext only newsreaders. Or
> is that a st00pid question?
>
In one of MicroSoft's own discussion groups, this problem was
brought up more than any other three to one. MS's response,
from the head of Outlook developement, was "We aren't working
on this, it doesn't bother us."
Most Outlook Express users are surprised to find that they can
use other mail/news clients. As OE came with their system, they
thought that was what they had to use - just the way MicroSoft
intended.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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