[Gllug] "linux is based on NT4, an 7 years old OS - very obso lette now..."

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri Apr 25 10:39:39 UTC 2003


On Thursday, 24 Apr 2003, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>On Thursday 24 April 2003 18:11, David Damerell wrote:
>>On Thursday, 24 Apr 2003, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>>>I apologise, not for the first time, at being forced to use MS Outlook. I
>>>alter its operation the best as I can to ensure that it works well on this
>>>list, but there is only so much I can do.
>>How is it, then, that other people can manage not to send HTML mail
>>from it, and even a merely moderately ugly quoting style?
>I am sending multipart mail from work so you'll opnly get html mail if your 
>mailer is set up to see it.

Er, no. I _get_ HTML mail whether or not it is displayed to me.

>As I have no access to the server i cannot change that (see GLLUG passim).

I think there comes a point where if your work email account is unfit
to send mail to the world, you shouldn't send mail to the world from it.

>As to the quoting that is because I work in an office of 30+ people and use 
>the office style per force.

Obviously your co-workers will be mortally offended if you send
correctly formatted mail to GLLUG.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> Kill the tomato!


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