Outlook 2003 reply time not correct - suggestion

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In Outlook 2003, if you start to compose a reply to an email at say 10am but
don't send it until 1pm, the display in the original incoming email shows
that 'you replied to this email at 10am'.

I think it would be more correct to say that you replied at 1pm
 
Jentek said:
In Outlook 2003, if you start to compose a reply to an email at say
10am but don't send it until 1pm, the display in the original
incoming email shows that 'you replied to this email at 10am'.

I think it would be more correct to say that you replied at 1pm
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I disagree. You actually replied at 10 AM. The reply being sent at 1 PM
doesn't affect when you created your reply.
 
To me, the reply is the act of sending the reply, not starting the response.

I did actually compose from 10am to 1pm, not start at 10am, finish at 10am
and send at 1pm.

We'll have to agree to disagree, no problem, it's a minor suggestion anyway.
 
Jentek said:
To me, the reply is the act of sending the reply, not starting the
response.
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Then you'll have to change your definition.
I did actually compose from 10am to 1pm, not start at 10am, finish at
10am and send at 1pm.
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Outlook's reply function is independent of the sending function. If you
hand a letter to your mail carrier, do you consider yourself to have sent
the letter even though the letter will be traveling around with that mail
carrier for a while before it actually gets delivered? I'll bet you do,
even though the letter may not have been postmarked yet. Consider Outlook's
sending of the message as a postmark.
 
Yes, I would classify me as having sent it, when I handed it to the
mail-carrier NOT when I started composing it.

When you build a house and it takes 2 years, when it's complete you say you
built it in the year you finish it.

Anyway, I was just trying to point out to MS that this is what Outlook is
doing and were they aware of it. If it is working as designed, that's fine
with me.
 
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