On 23/10/2010 05:28, RussellMc wrote:
> Note: Mention of Vitaliy and Olin below are related to specific examples
> which have been noted when viewing each others emails and not meant to be
> generalisations.
>
> ______
>
> The wonderful world of email clients.
> I'm sure that many people will see your message  as plain text.
> In Gmail the older text is all hidden because I have seen it before in th=
e
> same thread so GMail knows I of course will not want to see it again.
> I have to click
>   - show quoted text -  to see it.
>
> Nest,m GMail displays it as "Rich formatting" as opposed to "Plain text".
> I also see html as RF so I don't know what triggers GMail's decision.
> Olin has advised that what I see a RF he sees as plain text on at least s=
ome
> occasions.
>
> Then, when I do unhide it it shows as NOT indented but with each line
> prepended by ">".
>
> Go figure, as they say (but usually not here).
>
> Your new text is prepended in my response with a thin vertical bar
> (continuous across multiple lines) that tells me that if I send it to a
> GMail client they will received it as hidden quoted text.
>
> In GMAil to get leading ">"s and not hidden quotes I must convert a messa=
ge
> to plain text and then back to ricj formatting, losing most formatting in
> the process. (font, point, color etc.
>
> If I reply in rich formatting mode to a message from eg Vitaliy which I
> receive in the same format from him via PICList he has been known to
> complain that the format is strange and unacceptable (I can't recall what
> the issues is - but it apparently is due to his clients refusal to follow
> the RFC and not GMails's BUT you'd think that GMail would do what was mos=
t
> acceptable to once and not care too too much about no stinkin RFCs [tm].)=
..
>
> GMail is a relative power unto itself.Even in Rich formatting mode it off=
ers
> limited point sizes and font choices BUT displays incoming text different=
ly
> depending on Font and point used and will display those outside its stand=
ard
> range not tell you what you are seeing and even allow you to reply in the
> same font that would be inaccessible to you in a message that you origina=
ted
> using GMail. On occasion I will copy a block of text into eg Word, set fo=
nt
> and point and then copy back to GMail. The result will sometimes be as
> expected.
>
> Windowes Live doesn't sound totally bad :-)
>

Interesting - GMail seemed to do the best in a few polls I checked out,=20
but it seems that has it's share of quirks too...
I did consider it but I wanted something similar to WLM (not a net based=20
client) and the contextual advertising I heard of didn't appeal to me=20
either. I've made my choice though (at least for now until I fall out=20
with TB :-) ) so I'm sure I'll have fun discovering TBs eccentricities..


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