Nic Scheepers wrote:
>
> I am feeling so dirty for making a mistake like that.
> I am very new to this and did not realise first  of all
> that MIME was on when I sent this e-mail, and as you
> saw I changed it to text as soon as I got the mail from Olin.

Hi Nic, first, WELCOME to the list! :o)
Sorry that your first posts here have met with
criticism of your actions. We ALL make mistakes,
I try to make them daily. ;o)

> Please forgive me to be a asshole and get over with it.

I don't think anyone believes you are an asshole.

Plain text is *best* for a plain text mailing list.
If I could make one more suggestion, it would be to
ask if you can use line wrapping or carriage breaks
so we don't have to scroll to the right to read your
text lines that are (still) 3 pages wide on my browser.
To quote your paragraphs here I had to manually insert
cariage breaks and add > signs in front of each line,
which is a pain and may stop some people bothering to
reply to your posts. :o)

> No need to kill MSoft for doing a brilliant
> job in certain areas and lacking in others,

Ha ha! <joke> I think there are MANY needs to kill M$!

M$ doing a *brilliant* job in these areas:
* criminally destroying competition
* forcing people to buy their products
* forcing new PCs to be sold with windows installed
* fooling most of the population
* making mega bucks

M$ doing a *lousy* job in these areas:
* software

;o)
-Roman

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