[mythtv-users] What email client are you using?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sat Feb 18 03:05:16 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:32:43PM -0800, Ross Campbell wrote:
> > For the benefit of the 75% or so who don't realize this, let me point
> > out that *this has been the standard (for very good reasons, almost
> > none of which are subject to personal taste) for almost 25 years*.
> 
> I place the blame for breaking this standard squarely on Microsoft
> Outlook's default settings.
> 
> I believe that a number of corporate users have become accustomed to
> top posting and believe it to be good.

See my sig, below.

>                                        The *ONLY* good quality that I
> can see or imagine is that top posting retains a more complete "email
> audit trail", but who wants to read an audit trail?

And yet it does *not* maintain an audit trail, except to the degree
that you don't clip headers, either.  :-)

> I used mutt for a long time until coworkers html email, non-portable
> binary attachments, and multimedia files made me reluctantly switch to
> thunderbird.

And you can even do everything right in Thunderbird.

> I use gmail for mail lists and find the keyboard shortcuts very much
> like mutt. That can't be a coincidence...

Likely not, but they still do so much stupid stuff.

Cheers,
-- jra
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	A: No.
	Q: Should I include quotations after my message body?


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