On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:29:39PM -0600, dG wrote:
> Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. For me it was a
> huge annoyance which pissed me off but there are hundreds and thousands of
> people out there who are not technical in any way for whom this would be a
> major crisis. Are you going to fuck up their computers just because you
> have the ability? Are you going to punish them because of Microsoft? If
> you say yes, then in my book you are a pathetic human being. Making
> ignorant people suffer for their ignorance is not funny.
So all of a sudden uttering certain kinds of addresses becomes taboo
just because some mail clients barf on it? Will Congress pass a law
against using the word "Hello" in electronic mail because Outlook 2004
crashes on it?
You are responsible for facilitating your mail. If some arbitrary text
breaks your mail system, fix it. It's quite rude to call us "pathetic
human beings" because your mailer died. I'm not responsible for your
choice of MUA. I'm not responsible for the design of your MUA. And I
refuse to kowtow to being Outlook-correct in my messages, I'm
following published standards.
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