Roy Wood writes:
> >100 turgid messages with no complaint. Is this stilll the silly seasom ? > Well it proves we are all still out there and listening. Since the purpose of this list is to communicate it can hardly be OT discuss the basic mechanics of such communication. I have already explained (at some considerable length!) why I use Lookout Distress (good one!) Unless you are clamouring for a reprint, would y'all please desist from discriminatory remarks on this head as it serves no useful purpose? If your email clients are so smart how come you are not able to filter out the crap you dont want to read? Anyway, this thread appears to me to be about how the various clients mangle our messages in their various ways and not about LD in particular. It should be a salutary lesson to *everyone* that we cannot expect messages to appear on other people's screens the way they appear on our own. Hence the need for agreed standards (straight text only) and clarity (formatting, quoting, editing) and that as many fancy features as possible should be switched off across the board, or suitable work-arounds devised (as I have gently but futilely tried to demonstrate earlier in this thread.) For the rest, Live and let Live! Per
