On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, John Hogan wrote:
> At 06:31 PM 9/17/2001, Hubbard, David wrote:
> >Your attaching of a Microsoft vcard to the reply you
> >sent to the list is a perfect example of why list
> >admins start banning certain mail clients in the first
> >place...
> >
> >Dave
>
> seems to me like pure sys admin elitist snobbery to me (my client is better
> than your client)... just cuz you use pine doesn't mean that we all do...
Not capitalizing means, you don't mind if you're not read. We'd better
ban you from the list in the same run.
It's about broken default configuration and lacking
standards-conformance. Ever received a mail that contained "^begin .*"
and "^end" (regexp) later?
Ever seen how Outlook (Express) cope with base64/quoted-printable
encoding? Ever seen "comb quotings" when Outlook reformats the
perfectly-formatted mail behind your back?
These are reasons why it's important to block broken mailers.
No-one insists on telling somebody else what software to use, but we all
can expect that people use their mailer properly, and if the mailer
plays games behind the user's back, it's broken and should not be used.
And now please don't waste our time with senseless advocacy. Outlook
Express is banned for technical reasons, not for political reasons, and
rightly so.
I should filter mail from idiots that don't even get capitalizing the
first word per sentence right. You want the list, you play by the rules,
not vice versa.
