Rob, et al -- ...and then Feztaa said... % % I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies % after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't % like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it % is "so cool".
I, too, have gotten such feedback. Granted, it's not often, but it definitely happens and many folks love the way responses are right by original text because then they know what I'm saying and in response to what. There is a small percentage of people who recognize the benefits of quoting The Right Way, and then they're hampered by their mailer. Unfortunately, most other folks see Outhouse's quoting style and go from there and then get stuck in a rut and don't want to change. I even got some hate mail from a few users saying they couldn't read my messages at a previous gig; of course, it was from those HTML-lovers who depended heavily on their own special color on the rare occasions they made any notes within the original body. I tried to explain that, if we were all using a real mailer, coloring quoting would also be easy, but they wouldn't have any talk of anything other than LookOut! being a Real Mailer :-) % % I'm going to turn this into another reason why she ought to be using % Linux, because it makes it easier to do that. % % So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by % default settings they don't know how to change, or lusers stubbornly % refusing to do anything resembling intelligent behavior? Oh, the second is always better because it's more satisfying to LART them. Realistically, though, the problem gets started by the former and *then* persists because of the latter; peer pressure is a terrible thing (or a terrible thing to waste, depending on how you look at it). % % -- % Rob 'Feztaa' Park % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % -- % "The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots % haven't seen the joke yet." % -- Oliver Herford :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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