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Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)



"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>     Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will
>     occasionally see the entire quoted message after the response, like
>     this:
> 
>          response to message
> 
>          > entire message

Don't you mean:

response to message

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: ObElitist (was Re: Virus incident)

> entire message

God, that shit makes me violent.  If I ever find the guy at MS who
thought up that crap...

> Fixing quoting problems with Microsoft Outlook
> 
> As a large number of people use Microsoft Outlook, ("Outlook is a
> security hole that also happens to be an e-mail client", Steven J.
> Vaughan-Nichols [1]) despite the many security exploits associated with the
> program, to say nothing of its flouting of Internet mail standards, I've
> assembled the following directions to achieve a closer conformance with
> Internet mail standards.  See also:
> 
>     http://www.lemis.com/email/fixing-outlook.html
> 
> To set linewrap, quote character, and non-HTML mail preferences:
> 
>     From the "Tools" menu, chose "Options...". 
>     
>     To set Plain Text as the default format:
> 
> 	Click the "Send" tab.  Under "Mail Sending Format", select
> 	"Plain Text".
> 
> 
>     To wrap lines at 72 characters:
> 
> 	While still on that same tab, click the "Plain Text Settings"
> 	button to bring up the "Plain Text Settings" dialog. Edit the
> 	value of the "Automatically wrap text at __ characters, when
> 	sending" field to 72.
> 
> 
>     To set the prefix character:
> 
> 	While still on the "Plain Text Settings" dialog, ensure that the
> 	"Indent the original text with __ when replying or forwarding"
> 	field is checked, and that "> " is selected in the drop box.
> 	(Both should be so by default.)
> 
> Thanks to Dan Martinez for this information.

IIRC, even with these fixes, Outlook still suffers brain damage.  For
example, it'll wrap *everything* at 72 chars so that quoted messages
look like:

> As a large number of people use Microsoft Outlook, ("Outlook is a security 
hole
> that also happens to be an e-mail client", Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols [1])
despite

Unfuckingbelievable, IMHO.

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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