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%-> > You'd think everyone here grew up using Microsoft mailers.
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%-> Actually, I'm beginning to think that that's the exact truth... :-}
%-> Nonetheless, I don't think that's the explanation: After all, if you use
%-> e.g. elm+vi or mutt+vi or similar mailers, your cursor ends up at the
%-> beginning of the message as well, so that's no excuse *not* to scroll
%-> down and delete unnecessary quotes. I can't help but wonder what's so
%-> different about the MS world mailers that people get so lazy.
Now, now, that's a bit unfair... it's actually much easier to mark and
delete text with Windows mailers than with UNIX ones, generally speaking.
SHIFT-DOWN ARROW etc. will do it. I wish there was a similar key sequence in
Pine. Ctrl-K sort of works, but it should delete the whole block after the
cursor, not just the line it's on.
%-> Also, many people seem to think that hard drive space and bandwidth are
%-> cheap these days and no care needs to be taken to save either.
That's probably not correct either. Most people using Windows are simply
less technical than UNIX users. They don't think in terms of bandwidth and
space saving when sending email. That's why you get huge HTML missives with
pictures and goodness knows what attached to them from newbies starting out
with Windows (or Linux users with Netscape Messenger).
Education... that's all we can do. ;-)
-- Juha
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