In message , VanguardLH
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[Outlook]
It used, before a certain version, to _appear_ to do news:

Nope, never in Outlook, only in Outlook Express (which was Microsoft's

That's why I said "appear".
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I forget the details, but it actually called the OE that it knew would
be there.

Oh yeah, I remember something like that. There was a "Go News" menu bar
entry that all it did was call msimn.exe to open in its own window to do
newsgroups. There was a command-line switch to load OE only it
newsgroups mode. The menu entry in Outlook (to separately run OE) got
dropped back in Outlook 2003, so it was available only in prior
versions.

https://www.outlook-tips.net/how-to/go-news-is-missing/

Outlook didn't do newsgroups. It merely had a menu-ized link to an
external program (msimn.exe aka OE) to do newsgroups. Well, having a
desktop or taskbar toolbar shortcut or a key shortcut to msimn.exe was
just as easy. OE first came bundled with IE version 3. Microsoft
dropped OE from IE7 (OE6 was last available in IE6), so there was no
guaranteed msimn.was was on the host and Microsoft dropped the hardcoded
link in Outlook that might point to an executable that doesn't exist.

Which makes sense.
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In e-mail, top-posting is the de facto norm in replies.

De facto is right, unfortunately.

And HTML formatting, too, despite the entire message might only require
plain text.

Indeed.

For awhile, e-mail providers were not including both MIME parts (text
and HTML) for text-only e-mails. I remember when Hotmail (when using
its webmail client), would format outbound e-mails in HTML, add the MIME
part for HTML, but omit the MIME part for the text versions. The result
is that switching to plain-text only in some e-mail clients resulted in
see the HTML code since there was no text MIME part to grab and render.
Some clients would try to render the sole HTML MIME part as text but
sometimes that rendering would not be the same as if a text MIME part
had been included in the message.

Nowadays, some email systems - I don't say clients, as so far I've only
come across it in emails from companies (though including some quite
small ones) - _do_ include a text and an HTML part, but the text part
doesn't contain what the HTML part does (not even the text part); one I
get often just says something like "we tried to send you this email in
HTML (text and pictures) ..." in the text part. [_Without_ then adding
the _text_ of what they were trying to say.]
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Never make the same mistake twice...there are so many new ones to make!