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[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 19 August 2004 at 20:04:57 -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Friday, 20 August 2004 at  0:57:26 +0100, John Murphy wrote:
>
>>> Never used Outlook or Outlook Express myself but I get the
>>> impression that what they see is NOT what they send.
>>
>>
>> I used to think that too, for the obvious reason that you can't
>> understand why anybody would send such a broken message.  Since then,
>> I've come to the realization that yes, indeed, a very large number of
>> people *do* send obviously broken text.  The main reason seems to be
>> that it's just too difficult to get right.
>
> This is totally true.  Outlook on the PC absolutely can't deal with line
> breaks appropriately.  It was the single most frustrating thing about it.
>
> That was, of course, until I had to use Lotus Notes as my MUA again.
> Makes Outlook appear like a dream.

Heh.  Been there, done that.

> And again I'll say: anything Outlook does poorly, Lotus can do
> worse.  You'd struggle to find a worse MUA.

Agreed.

Greg
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