Some time around 6/3/03 03:47:31, I think I heard Martin Webster say:
> Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 6:35:35 AM, you wrote:
nwd>> The word I'd have used was "childish"...
> Unhelpful, impolite, and not welcome on this list. And, if you had read the
> thread you would have noted that dZ was a long standing Eudora user.
Well, thank you all for your wonderful help and insightful comments.
If you must know, yes, I was trying to set the quoting prefix for one of
my accounts to '::', the account I use to communicate with friends, family
and other personal acquaintances. I didn't realize that by mistake it
had affected also the template settings of the folder where I keep my TBUDL
messages. I sent the single short message not thinking it would cause
any problem (2 lines!) and was expecting to fix it afterwards. How
wrong was I! To commit such mortal sin! :(
The Bat! is a great program; very powerful and feature-rich, but it is
sometimes confusing and overwhelming to the uninitiated. Most of this
confusion is due to the developer's philosophy and power users'
expectations which define the product. But alas! not everyone comes
to understand these at first sight. And this has little to do with
using "colorish blinking fluffy 'email' with pictures and sounds in
it" or the want for it. I for one have been a power user of Eudora
for many years and have even used vi as my text editor when composing
mail in command shell UNIX, yet still managed to send a message with
the wrong quoting prefix. :( I'm sure that whatever extensive
knowledge of TB and appreciation of its mind-set some of you may have
has come at the price of time and experience. There are better ways
to foster TB!'s functional philosophy without having to resort to
personal attacks and insults. And in the end, this does not help
anybody.
I apologize for my mistake and hope that in the future you can
tolerate a bit more a TB!-newbie's transgression. After all, no
matter what fluffy email he might have sent in the past, he shed it
all now for The Bat!, no? :)
-dZ.
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