Sam Carleton wrote:
What in the world did I do to you to desire a reply like this? I asked a
simply question. I was starting to appreciate you reply that it was not a
courier-IMAP issue but an Outlook problem until you went off this
anti-Microsoft tangent. I just want to know what I did to you that was so
bad that I deserved a reply like the one above.
Absolutely nothing. Robin has a long, proud history of being rude to
people in mailing lists. He is especially mischevious in the
qma...@cr.yp.to list every chance he gets. His advice is usually always
very technically correct, but he does love to be condescending. If you
can overlook his condescending attitude, then fine, thank him for his
advice. If not, just put him in your kill file and be done with him.
I will agree with him that m$ has never produced a decent piece of
software. All of my home machines are linux, and I have about 15 unix
servers of various flavors that I manage at work but I still find myself
sitting at my win2k box for reading email at work. Why, because Netscape
on linux sucks. Why do I, a mail administrator (among other things) for
a global network, use a broken MUA like Netscape? Because I damn well
please. I have used it for 6 years and it's what I am comfortable
looking at. I might permanently switch to pine if I take the time to
learn all of the user interface, since Netscape isn't being actively
developed any longer...
I don't even want to hear how Netscape mail client breaks threading and
archives, etc. I am well aware of it. I will change when I get good and
ready to, ie when I have the time and effort :-)