On Jan 3, at 16:17 | Jan3, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Norman/
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<top or bottom quoting snipped>
Ah - it is a bit Lilliput/Blefuscu-like isn't it!
Don't throw rotten eggs anyone!
>> I suppose it is that M$ products default to top quoting. Interestingly all
>> the mailers I have ever used (Turnpike, Thunderbird and Apple Mail) default
>> to bottom posting.
> Agreed. Where there is a common way of doing something accepted world wide,
> M$ comes along and bolloxes it right up. Take HTML emails for example, the
> RFC says text - Outlook defaults to HTML. With certain exceptions, most
> people buying a computer accept all the defaults and so, a new "standard"
> appears.
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> We seem to have used the same email clients though! (Except Apple Mail)
I *loved* Turnpike, partly because the developers were active in their own
usenet group, and Richard Clayton was there. The depth of functionality was
amazing. They even had a good regexp implementation for searching and
filtering.
The *only* reason I junked it was there was no IMAP support. Mind you that was
years ago, and probably it fell behind after the Demon takeover.
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>>> Soak the pad with alcohol
>> Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) not 12yr malt whisky I presume (8-)#
> Well, either - I never touch Whisky myself, can't stand the taste or the
> smell.
Shame - from your name I thought you might be Scottish.
> My dad was an alcoholic and a lorry driver (dangerous) who did the distillery
> run and always had a bottle or two of the clear-blueish raw spirit straight
> from the still.
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> I rather suspect the dissolved stuff in a 12 YO Malt would probably taint the
> print heads though - so I'll stick with IPA.
(8-)#
I have just realised the ambiguity of "IPA" - but 4% alcohol is too little (8-)#
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Tony
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