Re: The Apology

[Linus Toy <linust@mindspring.com>]

> From: luis@odf.ucsd.edu (Luis Patino)
> 
> Wouldn't it be wonderfurl if everybody used unix instead of POS
> microsoft? I 
> mean, folks, this sort of thing wouldn't happen, or at least not so
> often
> and unrelentlessly:

as i recall, unix mail from a shell (telnet) doesn't _show_ you if you're
attaching the original message--heck, doesn't even show you what you've
written if there's more than a screen full--you kinda have to know what
you're doing--most non-techs (and many tech types) couldn't figure out
.mailrc or the dot commands if their life depended on it.  OTOH, the
Wintel-based mail programs I've used give you easily accessible options for
including original messages or not, AND show you what it'll look like
before you send!

oblig Audi content:  after more days of work travel, its awfully nice to
get back behind the wheel of my q--far cry from the dumpy Neons they rent
(at least it wasn't puke purple this time) 

--linus
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