Subject: RE: pine 4.0 preview

From: "Everett, Marty" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:19:09 -0500

I fail to understand your purpose in the forum. If you can not help then
just shut up!
thanks Marty

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robin S. Socha [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Friday, January 16, 1998 2:44 AM
> To:	Pine Discussion Forum
> Subject:	RE: pine 4.0 preview
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Everett, Marty wrote:
> 
> > This a problem that I have ask about before. When I get mails from
> user
> > of MS Exchange or outlook and they have the edit setup to be ms word
> > then I can get the email and read it but it has trash at the end. I
> have
> > call exchange support and I was told that this was fixed in pine 4.0
> > here is the test of message the I got from exchange support. It
> seems
> > that the people at Exchange support are wrong and I need to call and
> > tell that.
> 
> Dear Everett,
> 
> thank you for choosing a Microsoft product. We appreciate your
> information
> about MS Exchange's inability to create an RFC-compliant mail format.
> We are
> painfully aware of MS Exchange's shortcomings and are currently
> working on
> an upgrade which will be available shortly. It will be a trimmed
> version of
> MS Exchange and will probably called "mail" for obvious reasons. Since
> our
> R&D team have recently found that the use of a GUI for a mail
> application in
> fact decreases the program's user friendliness, "mail" will be run at
> the
> command line prompt. We envision a simple syntax for the use of
> "mail", e.g.
> "mail [email-masked]". In order to make it RFC-compliant, it will not
> support
> RTF, HTML, or binary attachments. "mail" will only run under NT,
> though, but
> we will offer a special bundle price for the upgrade kit, which will
> also
> include KerNeL! 98, Fdisk Plus and an improved version of Write
> ("WriteNow!"). 
> 
> Yours truly,
> 
> Robin S. Socha M.A.
> CEO German Web Force
>

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:11:52 -0800 (PST)

two words : comic relief 

another several words : he generally knows what he's talking about

another word or four : chill. it's all alright :)

Vinnie (She who cannot quote :) )