Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header

Post by mrgoldenbrown » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 3:33 PM UTC

bschwindHN wrote: post #164

xyst wrote: post #142

Apple added the same thing for iMessage/SMS. It worked as expected if the group message was all Apple users. But if you were the unfortunate person outside the ecosystem, you would get spammed with ‘{person} liked “{message}”’. In some cases, people would react to the reaction leading to some ridiculous chains of text.

I like how you word this in the past tense, it still happens to this day. I live outside the states but keep a google voice number and in my family's group chat I still get these all the time. I've mostly (miraculously) moved them to Signal, but they revert to their SMS ways occasionally.

Post by Arnavion » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 3:37 PM UTC

projektfu wrote: post #242

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #23

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> When you block an email the sender will get a notification email from their mail server that their message was blocked And if that blocked message was a reaction I’d assume I can move on: they sent an email, I sent a response, they refused to accept it and then spammed me to boot.

I agree, this is clearly worse, whether it's "your e-mail has been rejected" or "this server is not configured to accept 'reactions'", it's unnecessarily hostile to a user who probably doesn't understand that Microsoft has done something non-standard. And they will probably assume that you don't know what you're doing, because your e-mail doesn't work.

Post by Aachen » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 3:45 PM UTC

crimsonnoodle58 wrote: post #126

karaterobot wrote: post #76

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From that article: > (So if you want to opt out of Google Maps and Wi-Fi Sense at the same time, you must change your SSID of, say, myhouse to myhouse_optout_nomap. Technology is great.) I knew about the Google Maps thing, I didn't know about this. That kind of stuff is so presumptuous and user hostile it's outrageous.

Yep. My WiFi has had _optout_nomap ever since it was introduced. People always ask me why and I've never seen another SSID with it included.

Post by lifestyleguru » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 3:56 PM UTC

philipov wrote: post #253

yason wrote: post #185

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Because this is Microsoft we shall apply Gates' razor and must thus conclude that "never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice".

What you're thinking of is called Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice"

Post by marcosdumay » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

unnah wrote: post #159

throwaway3306a wrote: post #145

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It's using Word to render html. They tried using a browser engine but then it rendered a copy-pasted Word text differently and users hated that.

Now that they are transitioning the desktop version of Outlook into an Electron-like webview, I suppose showing HTML directly in the webview is out of the question, and they must be using the Javascript version of Word to render HTML...