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RE: Linux Capabilities



On 05-Aug-98 Uri Bruck wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Oron Peled wrote:
>> You probably meant iso-8859-1 (one and not lower case letter i)
> His message was sent with one of MS- outlook thingies which says it uses
> Hebrew implicit, hence the lower case i. 
> His mailer did not invent it, it's standard usage.

Standard? Since when? Can you enlighten us all and point us to
some RFC number or some ISO document about it?

His mailer DID invent it! And did it contrary to existing standards.
The "iso-..." in the font name stands for "International Standards
Organization". I don't recall that Microsoft has bought this institution :-)

Beware all from improper use of the word "standard" -- it does not mean
M$-product :-)

>> While we are at this subject, why are you mailing the same message both
>> as text and html? Are repeating phrases while talking as well? <p>Are you
>> repeating phrases while talking as well?</p>
> 
> Settings on the mailer - I doubt the original sender sees it that way in
> his outbox. I assume the option can be disbled.

I would like to remind that this is a Linux forum not an Outlook one.
If some poor soul has to use this product, they are at least expected
to be polite enough to set it up in a Unix/Linux friendly manner.
I don't expect people on THIS LIST to mail '.doc' files, even if they
do it in other forums.

P.S: Someone pointed not long ago (was it on this list?) about another
     smart "default setup" in the new version of Outlook Express -- splitting of
     large messages into 16KB (yes sixteen Kilo-Bytes) messages to bypass
     limitation imposed by mail transfer agents (sendmail, qmail etc.)
     Now imagine a typical 3MB Word Document sent through this mailer...
     I hope nobody on this list is using this default setup -- do you?

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