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From: P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Parcelfarce
> 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
>
Can I add to this that good communication involves snipping. Too many
messages contain the entire original mail, when the reply is often to just a
single sentence in the original. That's something that we can all do and is
not dependent on our mailer,browser or how we format our text.
Geoff Wicks
