RE: [PHP] php-general as REPLY TO
| From: | Ford, Mike [LSS] | Date: | Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:56:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] php-general as REPLY TO | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.biz]
> Sent: 01 July 2003 12:55
>
> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 18:08, Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote:
>
Watch your quoting attributions -- I didn't say this first bit, Derick did:
> > > You'll have to learn to adjust then I guess. And do those
> 2k really
> > > matter? Come on... Just get a good mailer that defaults to
> > > "Reply-All"
> > > (like, mutt, pine, pcpine)
> >
> > Some of us don't have the choice -- we work in a corporate
> or institutional
> > environment where the decision is made centrally. (Hence
> M$ Outlook 98
> > here!!!)
>
> If your organisation see fit to use to such broken rubbish
> when there are much
> better alternatives available (eg The Bat!) then you just
> have to put up --
> or you can choose to work in a better environment ;-)
>
> M$ has already done enough harm to standards, netiquette &
> best practices,
> with all the crap settings that they put into Outlook
> [Express] (like having
> Word/HTML as the default message format, top posting, their
> tnef format for
> attachments etc.)
Oh, I wouldn't argue with you -- and I do what I can to overcome those
limitations (no top posting here!) -- but, in my current position, I have no
choice about what I use as an email client in the first place. I just
thought Derick's response was a bit cavalier, which prompted me to want to
make the point that not everyone actually *does* have the choice.
Cheers!
Mike
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