Re: [VM] Email dangers portrayed in media

[James Freer]

Hi Uday

> Sorry about the swearing.  I realized, as soon as I sent off my earlier
> message, that I should have added a warning about it.  But, having watched
> the whole series, I felt that, underneath all that crudity, there was a lot
> of subtle reality that was portrayed.  I am planning to get all the old
> series from LoveFilm and watch them too.

It is not that one should be warned about it. Just that a lot of swearing imo 
portrays a bad image. Some do swear a lot if they have been brought up with that 
background. There is certainly a lot of subtle reality there but ruined by the 
swearing.

> Another trend that has come up in the last few years is that people can't be
> bothered to maintain an address book.  If they want to send you a message,
> they go and look for an old message you sent them and do a reply.  Now,
> imagine they copy somebody in, and imagine that they have top-posting turned
> on by default!

The problem with an address book; is that with windows one can get a virus and 
then send to contacts along with the mbox file being trassed, or if one uses 
webmail yahoo somehow the same thing can happen. My sister had a Viagra advert 
sent to all contacts... very embarrassing. I had a similar experience when i 
used aol but no embarrassment. Gmail UI seems more secure in that respect but 
their big negative is to hide bottom portion of the message which is why i went 
back to using an email client again.

> The point of this thread, however, is not to complain about top-posting, but
> rather to point out that it is *dangerous*.  VM users are not immune from
> it.  If you use vm-reply-include-text a lot, you are doing exactly the same
> thing that the Outlook-users do, and you might get burnt some day!

Yes and sorry i didn't mean to digress. The danger is there particularly since
gmail hide the bottom portion of the message.

james