Re: Excessive quoting and Outlook (was: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?)

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1030166702.5161.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> From: Bob Leif
> To: Robert Dewar et al.
> I quoted a very small part of the article. As a
> scientist, I have been
> programmed to always show my evidence.

First, to see what you posted, just go look back at the
article, I am certainly not about to repost it again.

Second, as a scientist if you tried to publish a paper
which consisted of one half or less of your own material
and one half or more of a gigantic quotation from a published paper,
then your submission would be rejected
not the least of the reasons would be that this is almost
certainly not fair use :-)

Bob, when you participate in use net, all messages are
threaded. Well actually I should not really say that, since
you seem to manage to break the threading pretty often.

But even when you are posting, there is almost always a
reference line of the form:

"Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1030166702.5161.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...

that you can see. This is all that is necessary most of
the time, and is like a reference in a scientific paper.

As for Outlook (one of the worst programs ever written IMO, and a
program that is single handedly responsible
for billions of dollars of damage by viruses because of
its complete lack of concern for security), it most certainly does
have defaults that are quite inappropriate.
I suggest you very carefully check the defaults you are
using and make sure they are appropriate. 

Now to be fair, Microsoft has *finally* recognized that
security is worth worrying about (you may remember the
highly publicized period earlier this year when development at MS was
stopped so everyone could worry about security).
So perhaps things may improve in the future