Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 16:46, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> On 09/04/2008, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  As a Linux user, I invite you to use one of the proper
> > implementations of a W3C-compliant Mail User Agent. I like KMail.
> > Thunderbird is OK, too, though not personally to my taste.
>
> That is not a practical solution for people who move around a lot,
> don't use a single laptop, and would rather have all their mail and
> mail settings in one place. That's the reason I use GMail.

Find an ISP that provides IMAP, then. And if you're "moving around a 
lot" and need information services, why _don't_ you have a laptop? If 
email is important, why do you allow yourself to be at the mercy of 
whatever internet-connected computer you can manage to find?


> It's also not just GMail doing this -- do any other of the major web
> mail providers follow this? ...

Why should I care how many people or organizations do it wrong?

The reason email is such a hell-hole is in part 'cause all these 
haphazard implementations.


Randall Schulz
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