[SLUG] Mailing Lists!

[Stuart Thomas]

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>>> Would it be any better if there was only 1 operating system
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>>> software manufacturer in the world?
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>> Of course not Ian.  But the worlds biggest megalomaniac is
>> advocating this, he's given us Outlook Express, and it sucks!
>>  Of course a lot of people don't know this because they don't
>> know any alternative.
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>> But we seem to be getting to a situation were most mailing lists use
>> posting in context or bottom posting.  With some people insisting on
>> messing up the flow by top posting.
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>> It's not just a case of readability either.  Because of top posting
>> each mail in a thread can become huge!  People simply click on reply
>> type their bit and send it off.  They don't look at the rest of the
>> post to see the numerous signatures and disclaimers attached.  These
>> should be trimmed off as no longer relevant.  I know some
>> people only receive a small amount of mail each day (I don't
>> get a huge amount) but some get a couple of thousand each
>> day.  So if each mail has 100+ Kb of rubbish that should have
>> been removed, that's an awful lot of unnecessary text to receive.
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>> I'm hoping to put together some guidelines to get the best
>> from the mailing list in the next week.  Hopefully with the
>> help of some of the people who thanked me for trying to get
>> the list in some sort of order.
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>> Al
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>> Al Girling			Registered Linux User: 290080
>> mailto:al21 at firenet.uk.com	Debian GNU/Linux
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> I use MS stuff simply for the sake of my wife and son, maybe a cop-out
> but it suits there needs, especially as my Dissertation is about Office
> XP - eeergh.
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> However what gets me about MS is the way that they place their software
> in charge. If its my computer and my software then what I say goes, for
> instance in pre Outlook XP you could compose a message, select a 'send
> from' email account from the send drop down menu and use that email
> account to send the email. Very handy when you have 8 or so POP3 email
> accounts and even handier if someone sends you an email to an old
> address as you can reply using the new email address. Office XP's
> version of Outlook however has no such option when it comes to sending
> emails. There is no option as to which email address is used when you
> click on send, the default POP3 email account is used. So to govern
> which email account is used when replying to either a new message or
> when composing a new message you have to set the specific email address
> that you want to use as the default one and then click on send.
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> If I must continue using MS Office I will downgrade this version of
> Office to one where by I am in control. However when time allows I am
> going to set up my computer with Linux and use OpenOffice.
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> Ian
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So is anyone doing anything interesting with their Linux boxes? 
building Robota's?, music machines,
time machines? :-)

Stu