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Borking Outlook Express

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the swedish-is-funny-on-the-face-of-things dept.

Johannes writes: "Swedish Gnuheter has a story on Nick Moffitt arranging with his X-headers in way that makes it impossible to read his email with Microsoft WebTV or Outlook Express. Moffitt states: 'The folks using Outlook Express have locked themselves into a limited subset of the information that can flow over the Internet, and are blaming me personally for not limiting my transmissions to that outlook-centric subset.' See also original email (in English). Immoral? Or just right?" Looks like Moffit's "Who, me?" attitude is tongue in cheek, but the creative header changes here are hilarious.

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  1. No Soap, Radio! by bill.sheehan · · Score: 3, Redundant
    It's interesting that the original link is to a Swedish site. I cannot read Swedish. It's a perfectly good language, the speech of a country of 9 million people with a noble history and culture, but I cannot read it. Do you suppose this link will inspire me to learn Swedish, or will I just click on the next link?

    Yup - you guessed it. *click*

    I also can't read L337. It's exclusionary speech, meant to be read only by other members of the clique.

    Free Software is a philosophy. Part of that philosophy is to share with as many people as possible. It's not a stick to beat people with, or something for the privileged techno-elite.

    Go ahead - keep Outlook users from reading your mail. Write in L337 if you want and keep people over the age of 17 from reading your mail. Heck, write in Swedish! Do you suppose my desire to read your deathless prose will make me learn Swedish?

    Yup, you guessed it. *click*

    Another lumpen-proletarian