Why not, like IE does, allow you to specify your editor? I'll take Notepad, Notepad++, PFE32, Crimson, VIM or any of a host of others before I'd take Word.
Bad, bad, bad decision. And, I doubt that Word is any safer in rendering HTML than IE, ultimately. Kurt On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:53, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a compromise, as are so many things. > > You want something that can render HTML, yet do so safely. > > You don't want to have the same issues with "modern" email programs using the > full IE rendering engine that Outlook 2003 did. > > You don't want to invest in multiple editors, that not being a good use of > engineering resources. > > Etc. etc. blah blah blah. For better or worse, it is what it is. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:39 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping > > Yet another reason to hate MSFT's Outlook. Can't turn off Word as your > editor? How stupid is that? > > Kurt > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 09:40, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can’t turn that off. >> >> From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:28 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping >> >> It looked like MS Word HTML formatting is what is causing the messages >> to be extra-huge. Might it be the option to use Word as the email >> editor in Outlook that is causing it? >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kevin Lundy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Although Michaels recent messages have been fine... >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Sherry Abercrombie >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> I'm not seeing that on "just about everything coming from the list", >> just on messages from MBS........and maybe one other person. >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Michael B. Smith >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Can you use another reader (POP or IMAP) to access your Gmail account? >> That should clear it up. >> >> (Other folks might say that those of us using Outlook 2010 should stop >> – but that ain’t gonna happen.) >> >> From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:38 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping >> >> Is anyone else getting really hacked off by Gmail putting out this >> >> [Message clipped] View entire message >> >> on just about everything coming from the list? I can't find a >> workaround or setting for it anywhere, apart from occasional >> sanctimonious online drivel about "open another email account because GMail >> is only for personal stuff". >> I'm just about ready to jump ship to another mail provider because of it. >> >> -- >> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put >> into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am >> not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that >> could provoke such a question." >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sherry Abercrombie >> >> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." >> Arthur C. Clarke >> Sent from Keller, TX, United States >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
