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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 1998 13:52:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   No more on the topic of personal Emails, I promise...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980628135223.fewtch@serv.net>

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Greetings to all,

I won't be saying any more on this list on the topic of personal Emails.
 I've decided to go ahead and handle everything with filters.  I have this
powerful OS and mail reader at my disposal, and can use them to deal with
the issue, instead of complaining about it to others.

So, you've heard the last on the topic from me.  Now why don't we focus
back on BSD.  I apologize for diverting the topic in here.  That *was* a
violation of list protocol, and I sincerely apologize for it.  From now on,
I'll focus my conversation on FreeBSD_newbie-related topics.

Now, back to our regular scheduled programming, as far as I'm concerned. 

I've decided to give StarOffice a try and am downloading the package
version at the moment (everyone should take a look at www.freebsd.org/ports
- I was surprised to see that for just about every port, there's a package
offered as well.  For this reason, I no longer keep the ports collection on
my machine.  Why bother, if you can download a package instead?  The only
thing about it is, some of the packages are newer than the standard ones
offered with 2.2.6, and require updated libraries as well that AREN'T part
of the standard 2.2.6 packages.  That can create dependency problems.  Nice
to have the newest programs, but often hard to find the newest libraries to
go with them.  FreeBSD may not be a mix and match OS, but the software that
runs on it should be able to be mixed and matched (just like you can
upgrade to Office 97 from Office 95 on Win95), if care is taken with
dependencies.

Tim

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