Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:22:49 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now, you have been warned! [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:23 AM 3/28/05 -0500, Ted White wrote:
>From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>

>> Ok, now I have a reason to hate Gmail, rather than as in the past where I
>> only had reasons not to use it myself.  Now it's in the same class as
>> "Lookout!" and "Lookout! Distress".
>
>I'm slow.  It took me to your last line to realize that you were
>complaining about Outlook and Outlook Express.

Surprise ending, huh?  ;-)

>I have no idea why, in this context.

Because it encourages top posting.  Besides starting with the cursor above
the text, it also includes: ">----- Original Message -----" above the
quoted text, and doesn't, by default, do the standard ">" indenting of the
quoted text.  The net effect is to encourage people to top post...and most do.

There are lots of other reasons to hate Outlook and it's lite version...and
those include the reason why I're renamed them: security vulnerabilities.
Those lead not only to damage to the user's system but add to the
proliferation of SPAM and viruses on the net in general.  However, in this
context those weren't relevant objections.

-- Mike B.
--
Experience is something you gain just after you really needed it.