Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:52:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104131252280.27707-100000@aphex.newgold.net> In-Reply-To: <3AD6CC62.15731.37C4C0E@localhost>
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They're killing off the paperclip, those bastards. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Freddie Cash wrote: > On 13 Apr 2001, at 10:35, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 13 Apr 2001, at 8:25, Peter wrote: > > > Or many of us are at work in a Windows only shop as the desktops, > > > and our webservers are nix. [Flame War --- As M$ office is just > > > about the best office product out there ]. > > > [What's this white spirits sitting by my desk? /me throws it away] > > Agree. There is no other office suite worth the same. > > And here I thought *nix users liked to have full control over their > apps. Tsk tsk tsk, getting a paper click to do their work for them. > :) Nothing beats Reveal Codes in WordPerfect to get a document > looking *exactly* the way you want it to... and knowing why it looks > the way it does when something goes wrong. :) > > IMO, the only "wordprocessor" Microsoft ever got to work correctly, > and was worth buying, was Works 3.0. None of their offive producs > since can compare to its simplicity, flexibility, and power. :) > > As for MUAs, so long as the mail travels reliably between servers, > and the servers are solid enough to service all the clients, then it > doesn't really matter what they are running on the client end. I'm > writing this in Pegasus Mail since that's the proggie I've used for > the past 5 years, before I found FreeBSD. Someday, I might move to a > FreeBSD desktop, but for now I'm content with Win98SE on the laptop > and FreeBSD in the server room. > > Cheers, > Freddie > fcash@bigfoot.com > > Reject complexity, embrace simplicity, and leave your > ego at the door. > - Colonel Kernel @ http://dualboot.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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