[plug] Re: Mail format thing (LookOut!)

[Leon Brooks]

Bret Busby wrote:
> Joshua Pierre wrote:
> > Sorry for Outlook :)
> The full header extract for the above message, which gave no problem,
> shows

> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
       Here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is the problem. (-:

The whole product is designed to be a nuisance if you don't use it in the
Microsoft Approved Way with Microsoft software end to end. Even then, it is
still a nuisance - which is probably not a design intent but nevertheless
certainly a design issue. For example, it dumps you into the quoted message with
a few blank lines at the head. This encourages simply typing in a message and
hitting Send rather than quoting in context. Better to have no blank lines and
possibly to dump the user in at the end. Other examples include the dreader
ms-tnef bundle, defaulting to *Word* as the message editor, (an odd for of) HTML
after that, and so on ad nauseum.