Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 24, 2003 11:25 AM
Agreed. For us in the know less is better but for Joe Six Packs, the more fancy stuff (e.g. eye candy) to play with, the more reasons to stick to a particular platform.
Although many would argue that HTML mails are bad but hey, they do look good and at the end of the day it is what looks good that really matters. One may have written the "best" mail client in the world but if the interface looks like crap, who would besides the techies would have reasons to use it?
Also I do have 2 Hotmail mail accounts (I know they are spam magnets but I got them when the Net was still relatively more behaved!) and am still wondering how am I going to use any FOSS mail clients to retrieve mail from Hotmail.
I am no troll and absoultely adore my MDK box at home. I am a network guy and absolutely find it hard to persuade people to switch to FOSS because they have tons of MS propreity data and it is HARD if not impossible to accurately convert them to open formats.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 24, 2003 11:25 AMAlthough many would argue that HTML mails are bad but hey, they do look good and at the end of the day it is what looks good that really matters. One may have written the "best" mail client in the world but if the interface looks like crap, who would besides the techies would have reasons to use it?
Also I do have 2 Hotmail mail accounts (I know they are spam magnets but I got them when the Net was still relatively more behaved!) and am still wondering how am I going to use any FOSS mail clients to retrieve mail from Hotmail.
I am no troll and absoultely adore my MDK box at home. I am a network guy and absolutely find it hard to persuade people to switch to FOSS because they have tons of MS propreity data and it is HARD if not impossible to accurately convert them to open formats.
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