In message , Paul
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What is the fascination with "putting lipstick on a pig" ? :-)
My reaction to that is similar to that of someone to "making a silk
purse out of a sow's ear": what would I want with a purse made of a
delicate fabric, through which coins would soon wear holes - but, as for
a nice pigskin wallet ...
Why not select a tool that does things right to start with ?
I do tend to agree, WLM isn't a good choice to start with. However, as
with OE, there are those who have become used to it, and adding WLMquote
is probably a lot easier than learning a new user interface. There were
also corporate cases where, at least, Outlook, if not OE, was mandated,
and Outlook-quotefix did for that what OE-quotefix did for OE.
(Unfortunately O-q doesn't work with O-2010.)
I have three web browsers on my OS, a tool for email, a tool for USENET.
If I absolutely had to paste some text from an email, into a USENET
posting, it wouldn't kill me.
I think one of the browsers, could probably do everything needed.
It has all the interfaces in it, so is technically capable.
But some of the interfaces *aren't the best*, which is
why I select another tool. I don't seek to reduce the number
of programs on the computer to just one. There's no point.
I have lots of free space left. Somewhere around a terabyte
on the drive holding C: right now. No need to be a tight wad
with space.
We'll just have ti disagree here, which surprises me as I've usually
found your posts very useful! I am not aware of _anyone_ using the same
UI for both news and mail who is doing it to save disc space; some of us
just like having the same (or a similar) one for each. As for the
"problem" of accidentally posting when one meant to email, I don't think
I've ever done it in several decades (of using Turnpike); I only see it
two or three times a year I'd say (from assorted clients). Though you
can be sure whenever one does appear (and is very obvious that it has
happened, and no followup is needed) that someone will post a followup
saying, in effect, "that wouldn't have happened if you were using
different clients". You can almost hear the "na na na-na na".
Paul
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PEDANTYou didn't start that RANT/RANT block./PEDANT
No. I typed <rant> several years ago.
(Alisdair Wren and Stuart Brady, August/September 1998.)