On 04/21/2008 02:41 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 20/04/2008, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 04/19/2008 03:39 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> > >> > Here's another one: >> > Joe says "today I will replace MSO with Open Office". He downloads >> > OOo, falls in love with Writer, and decides to write to his >> > grandmother and tell her all about it. But, he has no email client! >> >> >> Joe shouldn't be using html to send his grandmother email - but that's >> another issue. >> >> Joe can still write his grandmother via OOo. When finished all he needs >> to do is File|Send|Document as Email/Email as OpenDocument Text/Email as >> Microsoft Word/Email as PDF. >> >> Joe can use his OE, Outlook, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pegasus, >> whatever email client... That's the point: Joe can choose to use >> whatever email client Joe chooses. > > I never said anything about HTML.
No you didn't. However, HTML or MS-RTF tends to be the default setting. You might find these interesting reading: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html [Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307594 [Description of a new feature that users can use to read non-digitally-signed e-mail or nonencrypted e-mail as plain text in Office XP SP-1] <http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html> [Microsoft takes email design back 5 years] <http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/the_truth_behind_the_outlook_2.html> [The truth behind the Outlook 2007 change and what you can do about it] Joe thinks that Outlook is part of > Office. As he has committed himself to not using Office, he has > committed himself to not using Outlook. Now he thinks that he has no > choice but to stop using email or to continue using Office. If Joe already has Outlook, and is comfortable with it, there is no reason that Joe needs to stop using Outlook. He/she can use OOo *and* Outlook. If you want to give Joe an opensource Outlook stand-in, install Evolution. http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/ http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ > > By the way, this is a real life scenario. The first "Joe" in question > is a 22-year old female student. The second "Joe" I know who expressed > the same thing is a 33-year old electrician. > Looks like you have some educating to do :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
