Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 03:47:31 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.st>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEGKFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050214111122.GA7268@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dick > Hoogendijk > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:11 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... > > > On 14 Feb Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony > > > Atkielski > > Just curious. Why do you keep replying Anthony in such a professional > way if all he does is promoting windows again and again. I'm not actually replying to Anthony, because all Anthony is doing is parroting all of the same, tired old objections to use of FreeBSD on the desktop that are always raised. I'm replying to those same, tired old objections for the benefit of the newcomers to the list who might (understandably) assume that Anthony has some deep insight on the matter. Like Anthony, I do use Windows on the desktop myself. But not exclusively. 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. 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. 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. Ted
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