On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
> Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
>>> Yeah, but you are not suggesting people should use Ouchlook
>>> instead of Eudora, are you? If somebody insists on a GUI email
>>> client (and they're using Windows), what other alternatives
>>> are there to recommend?
>> Certianly not Outhouse, but Mulberry would be my GUI in Windows if I used
>> GUIs and if I used Windows.
> Is anyone here capable of talking about a product they don't like
> without making third-grade jokes about its name?
Actually, I thought 'Outhouse' was quite funny, hadn't heard that one
before, and it's so visually apt: the place with all the big stinkers
(viruses).
> Or are you so threatened by it you need to be defensive?
Certainly we are all threatened by it. Out* are virus motors; the
viruses can't hurt me, but they still consume machine resources
and time to clear them out of my mailbox. Out* are produced by
the evil company who actively tries to make everyone helpless,
stupid, and militantly ignorant; and those products and attitudes
help pave the way for things like the CBDTPA
( http://www.eff.org/IP/SSSCA_CBDTPA/ ). If this is not
threatening, what is?
Thomas Gramstad
thomas@ifi.uio.no
"Of course, the underlying problem is that Microsoft operating
systems are designed to prevent people from knowing what they're
doing with computers." -- Mike Hardy
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