Re: [Evolution] Bounce/remail command

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

Hi

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 08:38:28PM +0200, Christian Borup wrote:
> u07ih abdn ac uk wrote:
[snip]
> > Only the private account can print emails, so if there's an
> > interesting mail on the list I can bounce it to the other
> > account and print it without having > in front of
> > everything.
>
> But a forwarded message doesn't have to be mangled, in fact it
> should just be forwarded as is in a message/rfc822 mimepart
> (with headers and everything).  This way the original message
> can be read, printed or even replied to.  Just because many
> mail clients forward stuff wrongly, doesn't mean we need to
> keep dooing so.

Ahhh, but one thing I really hate is the way Outlook does NOT
quote replies and forwards with '> '.

When someone replies to me using Outlook, I have to wade through
the whole thing trying to remember what I wrote and then figure
out which is theirs.  Outlook's option to put [Replier's Name]
infront of what they write, might make things slightly easier,
but I find the '> ' quoting MUCH cleaner and more readable.

The fact that they write the message with their stuff in a
different colour doesn't help me either.  Firstly, I think '> '
is still better.  Secondly, I don't have X running most of the
time.  I currently use Mutt for e-mail, so I can't see any
difference between the stuff I wrote and the stuff they wrote!

To me that's like creating a web site with large clickable
images and no text.  It would work with Netscape/IE etc., but
wouldn't be very nice in lynx/w3m etc.

If you want the e-mail to be complete and not have someone
comment on it, maybe attaching it as a message/rfc822 is OK, but
normally people reply to the things and then it's nice to be
able to distinguish what you said from their comments.

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