Re: Outlook and news

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:16:26 +0000
"J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026/2/22 19:12:35, Mark Lloyd wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:01:34 +0000, Peter Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> >> Outlook Express had news access. It wasn't that good, although I
> >> couldn't tell you why at this distance. I used it for a few weeks before
> >> I discovered Agent.
> > 
> > Some people had a problem when you're replying and it would start with the 
> > cursor at the top, leading to top-posting. That one never bothered me, 
> > since I knew to click before typing anything.
> 
> Some even suggested that was to encourage snipping/interposting, rather
> than not doing any snipping and adding all of your response at the
> bottom, which is (almost) as bad as top-posting.
> 
> This was rather countered, though, by it also putting the .sig, if you
> had one, at the top.
> 
> OE-Quotefix mostly fixed it, though.
> > 
> > There was also a problem with multi-part binaries, although I don't 
> > remember what.
> 
> Ditto (the not remembering part).
[]

OK, I confess, I first connected/posted to Usenet using OE;  +OE-Quotefix
when it became available - I've shifted nym (and v. computers) since then,
though.

fu to alt.folklore.computers, as this is now olde history.

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.