Re: Replying to list
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:36:15 +0000
"Lynn Kilroy" <leks_transportation@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I use MSN Hotmail. Seems MSN Hotmail doesn't work quite the same way your
> cludgy e-mail clients {oft mentioned in your article} do.
I've never liked web-based email. Enough said. :)
> Furthermore, most common users {people who use MSN Hotmail} don't bottom
> post because MSN Hotmail {and Yahoo! for that matter} both are setup for top
> posting - like this one.
Imagine my confusion, having used nearly nothing but 'elm' and then
having to use Microsoft Mail (outlook) at work - I was of course firmly
used to bottom-post, or intervening quotes and text, since my email
experiences up until then were usenet & email (uucp at first). Of
course, one can include RIME and similar exchanges in DOSland, but we
didn't top-post there either.
But at this job, everything was top post. The emailer pretty much
forced you to edit that way - I recall spending time tryiing to
reformat the emails to look like what I'm used to, but eventually gave
up. After all, it's a different environment, and just maybe top-posting
is appropriate there. But I won't get into a big debate over it :).
> Last time I looked, WordPerfect went down the toilet.
Mostly. It kinda half survives in Corel - but maybe that's dead too.
WP (used it heavily in DOS days) was a fine product and at that time -
mid 80's - may have had the best tech support of any product. Sure it
seemed cumbersome to work, and the 'fancy programming languge" may have
been arcane, but people used it. 1-2-3 macros were so heavily used back
then too - but they resemble something looking like APL instead of a
"real" programming language :).
I think WP died out not because of these reasons but because their
Windows product was a dog compared to the DOS version.
Ease of use is one thing - and probably a very important thing, even if
it means dumbing down the product. After all, many of the advanced
features of Microsoft Word never get used much. And you could say (and
be right) that doing this in (la)TeX gives you ul;timate power over the
printed page. Hell, you could make it print every other lnie upside
down if you wanted it to. ;) But I doubt that it would be prominent if
sold as a "commercial word processor".
> Lynn Erika Kilroy
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