Re: Ettiquette whinge was Re: Debate in Westminster hall about Road Fatalities

Quoting Nigel Cliffe <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
If using Outlook Express or Thunderbird, I recommend not using the same one
as email program as well. Too much risk of posting with your email address
in clear as sender !

Which, of course, is not a problem at all if things are sensibly arranged.

Also, recommend the plug-in for Outlook Express called Quote-Fix; it
auto-fixes a few problems which Outlook Express tends to insert into news
postings.

Although it can't help with pilot error - for example, including the
entire previous article untrimmed; and at best it causes users to merely
sometimes post completely mangled articles instead of always.

OE's only major shortcoming is lack of very sophisticated filtering for
heavily trolled newsgroups.

And its susceptibility to simple tricks like;

begin explanation of why MSOE is crap

He won't see this.
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