Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:12:50 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Christopher Martin at Home <psycho@keyworld.net> Cc: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] Message-ID: <19980328181250.09035@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199803271114.MAA02860@mail.keyworld.net>; from Christopher Martin at Home on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 12:07:58PM %2B0100 References: <199803271114.MAA02860@mail.keyworld.net>
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On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 12:07:58PM +0100, Christopher Martin at Home wrote:
> Spot on...
>
> Use the KISS principal. Unfortunately the big-boyz are making it extremely
> difficult for the professionals in the field to convince ignorant customers
> that that is the way the system works.
>
> After all computer systems are not washing machines!
>
> :-)
> Chris
>
> ----------
> > From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
> > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?]
> > Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 4:56 PM
> >
> > >From: james huckle <james@xch.net>
> > >Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:23:45 -0000
> >
> > >I'm get a little sick of all this MS bashing. Sure, the product IMHO
> > >usually sucks and is bug ridden but people buy it and people have to
> > >support it. People like pretty windows to type into and will use these
> > >products at the expense of resilience.
> >
> > >...
> >
> > Granted, I've only been subscribed to this list for about a week, but I
> > don't recall seeing anything that I would consider "MS bashing" in it,
> > let alone in this thread. If you want to see MS bashing, take a look at
> > some of the "advocacy" newsgroups in USENET.
> >
> > As for using MS products... well, folks make choices. My choice is "no
> > MS" -- a significant reason I left a previous employer (now defunct) is
> > that they decided to try to port their product to an MS environment, and
> > I decline to support such things.
> >
> > [Please note that I am writing as an individual, who in no way
> > represents that his perspectives have any given correlation with any
> > other entity.]
> >
> > >Lets make the world a little more feature rich :)
> >
> > I'd rather have things work first, and add (appropriate) features
> > carefully... so things continue to work.
> >
> > david
> > --
> > David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168
> >
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No, and it's just as well they're not. Computers can get many things wrong,
but they don't make your sheets the same colour as your jeans :-)
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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