On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:02:00AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> 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.
[...]
That makes it even less understandable in my eyes. Funny thing: It has
happened often to me in the past that upon writing a polite mail to such
a user about trimming quotes I got a response basically saying: "But
it's so difficult" or "But it's so much work". Not having much
experience with Windows Mailers, I therefore concluded that it must be
kind of difficult...
> %-> 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.
[...]
Point taken. And you're right: Other programs (e.g. Netscape) seem to be
as bad.
> Education... that's all we can do. ;-)
Agreed.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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