My (admittedly conventional, follow-the-herd) Outlook Express does that too, on "Reply All".
Steve in Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:05 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Two items > He, Dennis, I just figured out why my messages are going twice! > > I'm in the process of converting from PMMail to Eudora. (PMMail has lots of > nice features missing from Eudora, but alas, nobody works on PMMail any > more, so it's a dying animal). When I "reply all" in Eudora, for some > reason it puts [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > on the "To" line, thus sending it twice. > > (It's also not smart enough to recognize when the "from" and "reply to" are > different, and give me a choice of which way to send the reply, like PMMail > did. That's a really nice feature for mailing lists, not forcing people to > clutter up mailing lists with message like THIS one.) > > Bill > > At 01:26 PM 3/24/2004, Dennis Fleming wrote: > >Thanks Bill, > > > >Your answers are so good they're duplicating on the RList (??) > > > >Dennis > >***** > > > > > >At 11:00 AM 3/24/2004 -0500, you wrote: > > >No, there's no consensus. People argued about it through from 1998 through > > >2000, the late Stephen J. Gould wrote about the history of that debate, (In > > >1900 and 1901 the general consensus in newspapers was that 1901 was the > > >begining of the century) end-times millenialists had one more excuse why > > >the world hadn't ended yet, and everybody who liked to party partied twice. > > > > > >Basically, people with a scientific/mathematical bent say there was no year > > >zero, so the first decade was years 1-10, the second decade started in 11, > > >the first century was 1-100, the second started in 101, etc. A more > > >populist tradition has said that "when the big number changes, something is > > >new." > > > > > >Then again, in R:Base there IS a year zero. Try this: > > > > > >SET VAR vDate1 DATE = (RDATE(1,1,0001)) > > >SHO V vDate1 > > >SET VAR vDate2 DATE = (.vDate1 - 1) > > >SHO V vDate2 > > > > > >I would say your customer needs to be asked to clarify their request. > > > > > > > > >At 10:38 AM 3/24/2004, Lichty, Tom wrote: > > >>Also, we had a request from a customer about archiving data before "this > > >>century". I always thought that meant < 1/1/2000. They pointed out it could > > >>also be < 1/1/2001. Is there consensus on this? > > > > > > > > > > >Dennis Fleming > >IISCO > >http://www.TheBestCMMS.com > >Phone: 570 775-7593 > >Fax: 570 775-9797 > >Cell: 570 351-5290 >
