From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 23:11:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACA716A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:11:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BFC43D3F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:11:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 2752D1C0009F for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:11:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 023C61C0009A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:11:07 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050214231108927.023C61C0009A@mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:11:07 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <435651952.20050215001107@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050214111122.GA7268@lothlorien.nagual.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:11:09 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Like Anthony, I do use Windows on the desktop myself. Well, that says it all, doesn't it? > But not exclusively. If you had only one computer that could boot only one OS, which would it be? > And, much more importantly, I will readily admit that I haven't > switched over not because I'm claiming I can't, I haven't switched > over because of laziness. What's lazy about sticking with something that works? > In my case I unfortunately decided it might be a good thing to use a > Microsoft client mail program to handle e-mail. This was a decade ago. > I now have around ten thousand archived e-mail messages accumulated in > a massive *.pst file that I really want to keep - not because I want > to look at all of them again some day, but because from time to time I > have to go digging around in that archive looking for some specific > piece from some specific person - sometimes these messages might be > 5-6 years old. Many e-mail programs can import messages from Outlook and/or Outlook Express. When I switched to The Bat (mainly to better handle spam and eliminate security issues), I was able to import all messages from Outlook Express without any trouble. > One of these days though when I get some time, that file is going to > get exported so that I can get out of dealing with Outlook. As it is > now, Outlook is barely able to manage the archive, and usually crashes > a couple times a day. And it's such a well written program that when > that happens, something internal to Windows gets jammed up and I have > to do a shutdown and restart. Microsoft likes to put all sorts of system hooks in its products. That's why I've tried to get away from Microsoft applications. I still have a few legacy Microsoft applications that I haven't been able to get rid of, however. All the replacements run on Windows, also. -- Anthony