Re: Line break problem

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 23:45 -0500 11/4/02, Michael Edmiston wrote:
> There's nothing wrong with using Netscape mail, or Eudora, or any
> other e-mail package.  But when the whole campus has adopted
> Microsoft-Exchange/Outlook it means those of us in this situation
> would need a dual system like David Bowen described.  We would use
> one e-mail system just for PHYS-L, and we would use Outlook/Exchange
> for everything else.  That's a real pain.
I am a long way from being an expert on matters Internetical, so I
probably can't contribute much of value to this thread, but I have
been using my Mac on an all Microsoft network at school for years,
and, as far as I know, have never had a problem with my e-mail
looking funny on a list serve (except to the extent that I write
funny). We use Outlook/Exchange as well, but somehow my Mac on Eudora
has been able to bypass the Microsoft stuff and go directly to the
Internet, so whatever MS has been doing to your e-mail, it has never
been doing it to mine. In fact, in the days when our campus was
downright opposed to anything to do with Macs, I could still use the
school network for e-mail and general Internet stuff, and often, when
the campus mail server was down, and nobody else could access the
Internet, I could as could any Mac-using colleagues. I also have been
able to use the school account for both incoming and outgoing mail
from home, and use my direct ISP account from school (although they
have changed a setting recently so that I can no longer send outgoing
mail from my home account if I am on campus).

I'm not sure what this means in terms of this thread, but maybe
someone else who knows more about networking than I (which includes
almost anyone--at least anyone under the age of 50) can explain what
goes on, and perhaps even relate it to Mike's problem.

I have just looked on it as another good reason to use a Mac and not
questioned it. But what do I know?

Hugh
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