Heimo Claasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Outlook Express. Is this e-mail client so difficult to configure?
>>> How hard can it be?
>> You have two options, at least in my version: quote nothing, or quote
>> everything after the message. I do the latter, copy the bits I need up to
>> the body and then remove the large quote.
>
>This demonstrates precisly the prototype for a bad program,
I heard OE had more than 200(!) bugs.
>resulting in what I call structurally induced spam production.
>And it's not all natural laziness - which I consider a positive
>feature - that makes people push the "quote (all)" button; users
>do not even get to *see* the masses of rubbish which is pasted
>with it "automagically".
In german newsgroups nobody is tolerated that practises this kind of
quoting (which is called here "tofu": text oben, fullquote unten).
The more I encounter such messages the more I develope understanding
for the flamers.IMO this is the most serious bug in MS mailprogs,
because they (again) try to establish their own silly "standard" versus
RFCs.
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Tibor Mocsar
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