On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:37:45AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 01 03:52 -0600]: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:30:31PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > [...] > > > If they have the misfortune to use an MUA that fiercely forces its > > > users to top post *cough*Lotus Notes*cough*, then they will do that > > > elsewhere and believe it is "proper". > > > > Off topic: How does Lotus Notes fiercely force its users to top post? > > I don't know Lotus Notes, so that's a not a rhetorical question. > > Any time one selects Reply With History (essentially including the > message you're replying to), it includes the entire message, does not > quote it, and puts the cursor and space above the included message. > It's a royal pain to edit it any other way as accidentally deleting the > wrong special character removes the entire included message and one > practically has to start all over. Those special markers exist at the > beginning and end of the included message. It does not quote the > message as is known in Mutt and other MUAs. > > So, the majority of users don't fight it and one literally must read a > message that has been forwarded/replied to multiple times from the > bottom up, scrolling up and down to read it in proper context. > Management types love Notes for some reason. Anyone with a clue knows > that it's hideously brain dead. > Thanks for the explanation. The result obviously replicates the traditional filing system where letters are piled up chronologically with the latest one on top, so I can understand that business people feel more at home with it. Better to be able to follow what happens rather than allow spontaneous, original, imaginative things to happen. Cheers, David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
