RE: Re[2]: [Dev-C++] Using the Resource Editor

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

-----Original Message-----
From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Bob
Wilson
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 4:38 AM
To: Dev-C++ User Mailing List
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Dev-C++] Using the Resource Editor


Dear Zodiaq,

p.s. I have nothing against M$ software... most of it is veeery good,
but when I see people saying : "This is the real problem, your
environment or at least your email program." without any knowledge of
what they are talking about it makes me angry... Bob - archives means
the ones on the net... on the web page... somewhere near where you
subscribed... look at the messages you posted in html and maybe you will
know what Hongli Lai meant by saying: "HTML mail mess up the archives."
and by the way - some viruses can be launched by OE without ANY user
'active involvement'... this is also true for some other e-mail
clients... safest way not to get infected is not use HTML in posts...
HTML is for web pages and new m$ help format, not for sending
messages... That's all... I tried to be as little rude as possible,
wasn't I?

You have made one very significant mistake, and that is that I do not
have any knowledge about what I am saying. You also miss the very
significant point that I have been trying to make. Before I restate it,
a bit of a response to your message. I know what a pain in the nether
regions html can be if you are trying to do is to pull out the text or a
web based archival system does not strip the html code. Sometimes it can
be damn near undecipherable. Most email is sent with some sort of text
formatting. Microsoft made the decision, for whatever reason, to use
html rather than rtf or some other generic format. 
In regards to the archives, it should not make a whit of difference how
the message is formatted. It could be coded in the World War Two flower
code used by the Japanese and formated in html and it will not "mess up
the archive." It may occupy more space than one might desire or require
some preprocessing (the flower code) before it can be read, but it does
not corrupt the archive unless the archival algorithm is doing something
exotic. A simple message database, with sort keys of the usual items,
i.e., subject, body, sender, addressees, etc., does not care how the
message is formated 
 
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Bob, it is a religious issue. Indeed they are a strange religion. :)
What they say about viruses is purely wrong, since the only thing they
have to do is to disable scripting completely within their email client.
 
 
Ioannis

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