more reasons to slay everyone

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:59 pm

Outlook 2003 silently changes all hyphens to n dashes, which is an unprintable character on a terminal. So every command line with options that someone emails me has no hyphens before the options when I paste it onto my command line.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:58 pm

uh yeah, the solution, don't use outlook. It's evil. Very very very evil.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:10 pm

send and recieve email as plain text, use notepad as editor.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:27 pm

I can't change the address people use to send email to me, nor can I change the format of their messages. I send email as plain text, but many do not. Thus, the only solution is the death of all who stand against me and plaintext emails.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:50 pm

Can I add death to all who use Lotus Notes?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:13 am

Just have your secretary print out all your email and mail it to you via USPS.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:10 am

what happens when you copy it and paste into notepad?

George · Post by **George** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:16 pm

Peijen wrote:send and recieve email as plain text, use notepad as editor.

I've got mine set up to send plain text, but is it possible to force Outlook 2000 to display a received message as plain text?

Not that it would help. There is at least one secretary that likes to send out e-mails without text. Instead, she creates an image or powerpoint slide with her message, plus some flowery clip art and sends that as an attachment. I got a 1 MB invitation to a picnic once. IT wonders why the company uses so much e-mail server space...

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:42 pm

George wrote:
Peijen wrote:send and recieve email as plain text, use notepad as editor.
I've got mine set up to send plain text, but is it possible to force Outlook 2000 to display a received message as plain text?

I am not sure about automatic setting, but when you open a message, click on menu->format->plain text to change the format

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:31 pm

The format choices are greyed out and unselectable.

Pasting it into a text format is the same as pasting it into my terminal. It's a different character code from a hyphen because Outlook's autocorrect decided no one should use hyphens except in the middle of words.

Pasting it into xemacs makes the character code explicit instead of silently throwing it away or trying to print something unprintable. Stupid ASCII.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:59 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:The format choices are greyed out and unselectable.

Pasting it into a text format is the same as pasting it into my terminal. It's a different character code from a hyphen because Outlook's autocorrect decided no one should use hyphens except in the middle of words.

Pasting it into xemacs makes the character code explicit instead of silently throwing it away or trying to print something unprintable. Stupid ASCII.

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George · Post by **George** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:57 pm

Depending on where you work, the IT people can get testy if you try accessing their server with an e-mail program they didn't give you. I think any attempt to access Northrop's server with anything other than the copy of Outlook 2000 installed by default would probably result in a swift and painful death.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:58 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:The format choices are greyed out and unselectable.

Pasting it into a text format is the same as pasting it into my terminal. It's a different character code from a hyphen because Outlook's autocorrect decided no one should use hyphens except in the middle of words.

Pasting it into xemacs makes the character code explicit instead of silently throwing it away or trying to print something unprintable. Stupid ASCII.

I think microsoft is intentionally sabotaging all other software companies!!

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:15 pm

maybe you can turn off the auto format feature in word? beyon that I don't have anyother suggestion for you. Also I just realize you can't use anything other than word as message editor in newer outlook. So much for the notepad idea.

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:30 pm

The problem is it is a client-side feature working on other people's clients. I have no hope except to eliminate them.

somethinghumble · Post by **somethinghumble** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:44 am

my qualms are that outlook on both my pc an lap, refuses to backup or 'export' (i saw my dad do it with his earthlink mail client, so now i wanna too {also, i am unable to backup my mail with mozilla's enigmail}.) And that outlook automagically opens up my AIM EVENTHOUGH i have that option in the 'general' settings page UNCHECKED. sigh.

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quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:02 am

I think I need to slay everyone that works for a company writing internal tools of more than a few thousand lines of code particularly in Java. And next in line are the managers that stop development of said tools because they think that it's good enough and that the remaining bu--, I mean "features", are stable enough for the years that we're going to have to live with them. Better yet, I think torture is in order by way of having them have to use these tools for the rest of their mortal lives. And since I'm feeling especially vindictive right now, they should have to continue using the programs for their eternal afterlives.