[Virtualacorn-list] Multiple recipients

[John McCartney]

In article
<62160.91.85.218.30.1531472256.squirrel at email.orpheusnet.co.uk>,

   Bob Ardler via Virtualacorn-list
   <virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk> wrote:

> Jim Nagel wrote:

> re:
> >> What is MPro?

> > [...]

> > MPro is Messenger Pro, the email and news client
> > application sold by
> R-Comp.  I think there's a version for Windows too
> (someone will correct me if I'm wrong).

>      Ah, bell should have rung.

> > The older version was called Messenger.  The original
> > authors are Mark Sawle and Tom Hughes.

> > The other main news and email client app for RiscOS is
> > Pluto.

>      Plot thickens. !NetFetch and !Messenger sit where
> Andrew's team put them on the pinboard, but to email we
> just NetSurf webmail, log in & do it all on Netsurf.

That'll be why your e-mails look a mess when viewed (in my
case) on Pluto. The threading is broken and quoting is
discontinuous. In order to compose this reply, I've had to
extensively edit your last email to make it more easily
readable.

> (NetFetch pops up on entering RiscOS from Windows,
> offering stuff which would require study to use.) One
> misses Pluto's style and versatility, but learning how to
> use it with webmail seems too much bother.

>      As to multiple recipients, our local environment
> discussion group with 32ish members put 32ish addressees
> in Cc, not Bcc. Most of them also quote in full
> (including each Cc) every previous message on the topic.
> Could be that this apparent goofitude is caused by people
> using smart phones on the move being unable to do the
> fiddly bits.

Your use of NetSurf and webmail doesn't seem to be able to
cope with the fiddly bits either. It would help somewhat if
you separated paragraphs with a double return instead of
just indenting the first line. I've had to do that before
getting Pluto to reformat so that your last two paragraphs
don't end up as one.

> Could the messages Vince spotted have come from phones?

Mine was created in Pluto on an ARMX6.

John

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John McCartney
j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk