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On 30/09/2003 at 14:31 -0500, mjinks@xxxxxxxx.xxx wrote: >Please, Eudora programmers: they are called "mail headers". The whole >world calls them "headers". People who don't know what a header is will >not bother to make use of a menu option which refers to headers, or >they'll try it out to see what it does and they won't be harmed. They >do not now, nor did they ever, need an option called, "Blah blah blah". How hard is it to say "display the headers by clicking the button that's got 'blah blah blah' written on it."? Personally, my only complaint is that that the headers that the button conceals aren't chosen by a whitelist of allowed headers, but by scanning a blacklist of unwanted headers. Every time some Unix joker adds X-Phase-Of-Moon or a fucking poem because there's some crack-arsed idea about using it to sue spammers, I have to go and add them to the blacklist. Using a third party plugin. Last updated in, oh, 1995, so it lays out so badly in 5.2 that it hurts. (Slight interlude whilst I add X-Fecal-Tableau (how pleasant) X-International-Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day (Oh, the amusement. No, wait. Thank someone I wasn't at work, or I'd have ended up killing at least two members of the list) X-Vladimir-Horowitz-Centennial (who the fuck?) X-Atmospheric-Gripe (great, weather whining in email headers) X-Uptime-Bragging (would be bragging if it weren't three days) to my blacklist) Oh, and yes, it should be under the Message menu item as well as just a button. (Apple's Address Book has a bunch of useful options that you can't discover without semi-random clicking on parts of the interface. NO THIS IS BAD LET ME SCROLL AROUND THE MENU STRUCTURE PLEASE THANK YOU.) On the other hand, have you ever *tried* to see headers in Outlook? Tools Internet Options Show Headers, and they're not even selectable? (Forgive any slight errors in remembrance; it's been a long time.) Give me a fucking break. I'll take my blah blah blah over that shit - and its unconfigurable whitelist - any day. -- :: paul :: historic light cone
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