Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Off topic: How does Lotus Notes fiercely force its users to top post? > > I don't know Lotus Notes, so that's a not a rhetorical question. > > Any time one selects Reply With History (essentially including the > message you're replying to), it includes the entire message, does not > quote it, and puts the cursor and space above the included message. > It's a royal pain to edit it any other way as accidentally deleting the > wrong special character removes the entire included message and one > practically has to start all over. Those special markers exist at the > beginning and end of the included message. It does not quote the > message as is known in Mutt and other MUAs. > > So, the majority of users don't fight it and one literally must read a > message that has been forwarded/replied to multiple times from the > bottom up, scrolling up and down to read it in proper context. > Management types love Notes for some reason. Anyone with a clue knows > that it's hideously brain dead. MS Outlook's default behavior is similar, but at least it can be changed, though (alomost) nobody bothers. I think (some of) my colleagues hate it when they get my replies in plain text, with all the formatting lost :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
