From: Reilly, John (john at domain xelector.com)
Date: Tue 09 Jul 2002 - 13:01:05 IST
You've said before that there is an exchange server in your place, therefore
you probably use Outlook.....you can get it to quote sensibly.
- Click on "Tools", "Options"
- On the preferences tab (The first one), click "Email Options"
- In the on replies and forwards section, set each of "on reply" and "on
forward" to "prefix each line of the message"
- Set the prefix to "> "
> <rant>
> Colm
>
>
> Yes Colm.... errm I might point out, I'm empolyed as quote a 'Junior
> Devleoper' endquote.
>
> 1. I have no choice in the mail client I use.... tough.
> 2. I am trying to get the damned software to work... my
> ad-hoc approach to
> facets of sysadmin ... which I am not officially employed to
> do.. has in the
> past produced results like getting my winmodem to work with
> linux drivers...
> by adding the correct entry to the inf file... and what is
> the problem with
> this?
>
> One of the great things about open systems like linux is that
> it enables you
> to tinker with the internals... or perhaps rewrite them if
> you see fit..
> some people might call this ad hocery.. some might call it freedom.
>
> 3. While I appreciate your input on this... like I say I have
> no way of
> controlling the mail client's I use... I'm not senior enough and to be
> honest it is the most pedantic irrelevant thing to me right
> now.... if all
> operating systems were run by your criteria..... then it
> would be the case
> that as the standard on the desktop is Windows... everyone
> would be required
> to use windows.
>
> I quote the way that I do, but unless you have a polite constructive
> suggestion for me... which in the free world I'm not required
> to adhere to
> as you aren't my mother nor my father and even if you were I
> still wouldn't
> adhere to arbitrarly imposed pedantic egomaniacial
> constraints on quoting
> sytle... we were talking about mailservers... what the hell
> is how my mail
> client formats responses anything to do with anything... if
> you don't like
> it you don't have to read it, you don't find me trying to
> impose constraints
> on you vis-a-vis your own quite rude and self important
> opinions on others
> so kindly extend me the same curtosy.
>
>
> For future reference when you want someone to do something
> for you... the
> most expeditious way to get it done is not to insult them
> first... no.... in
> fact this actually operate contrary to the supposed goal of
> getting what you
> want... instead live with it or try asking nicely...
>
> Why exactly should I change around the configuration of my
> mail client to
> suit YOU when you can't even say something even remotely
> curtious to me?
> And tell me why should I care if you have opinion one about me, my
> sysadministration, my programming skills or the price of cabbage?
> You seem to be suffering from the delusion that I care ...
> correction .. I
> don't.
>
> Furthermore, you might like it if you and people who used
> distrobutions you
> regard are adequate were the only people who used Linux ....
> some sort of
> Darwinian Operating system pesudo-intellegentsia, but sadly
> in the real
> world.. I could care less, bottom line my box is configured..
> it works.. it
> has save my company money... so insult my sysadmin skills
> till the cows come
> home.. I can assure you we're laughing all the way to the
> bank on that one.
>
> Regards
> Brian
>
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