From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 27 23:13:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12283 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12274 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:13:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA05202; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:12:53 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980328181250.09035@welearn.com.au> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:12:50 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Christopher Martin at Home Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] References: <199803271114.MAA02860@mail.keyworld.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199803271114.MAA02860@mail.keyworld.net>; from Christopher Martin at Home on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 12:07:58PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > 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 > > >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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message 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*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message