Re: [Evolution] top versus bottom posting and the"control-L"function

[Art Alexion <art rhd org>]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:35 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 15:33 -0400, Derek McDaniel wrote:
> > Plus, I prefer not to trim because if I am on my BB, and I didn't
> read
> > the first post, I can read the middle and understand the gist of
> > everything.
>
> Am I the only one getting that's getting a *really* bad feeling about
> the long-term effect of the BB on email in general? Outlook was bad
> enough, and now we have to make allowances for people on phones?

The BB tries to emulate Outlook because it is aimed at Exchange users
who are usually Outlook users.

As an editor, it is worse than Outlook (which is worse than anything
else) because it prohibits (not merely discourages) trimming and bottom
posting.

Overall though, depending on your perspective, it is better than Evo
because I don't constantly have misreported message totals and corrupted
indicies.  That is, it is more stable, if not as elegantly featured.

My shop used to use Palm phones, but we switched to the BB because of
superior stability and easier for IT to support.  It wasn't because we
liked the interface more.  They are just more reliable.

The iPhone seems to have come a long way.  It even features select to
quote, and is quite stable.  I haven't tried the Palm Pre or any of the
Google Android phones.  I thought the OpenMoko/Neo phones were merely
theoretical, because, until someone on this list mentioned one, I have
never heard of an actual sighting.

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