Re: [LUG] Email clients for newbies

[Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 18:11:51 +0000
Brad Rogers wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:27:45 +0000
> Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello Grant,
> 
> > Any reasons for this sentiment?
> 
> Because webmail encourages everything that's done wrong in email;
> 
> top posting, over quoting of previous text, use of html.

Top-posting & over quoting are not the fault of the mail provider, be
that standalone application or "webmail".  It is the fault of the user.

> Then there are the issues regarding threading (reference headers
> transported, but ignored), the way gmail doesn't forward (by default)
> list mail to the sender.

GMail's behaviour is not necessarily representative of all webmail
tools.  And the threading problems are not always handled properly in
standalone applications either!

Grant.

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