----- Original Message -----
From: "John Andersen"
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Brian K. White
wrote: But, what's it to you? I configure it to send only in plain text. Any other problems it has are purely my problem.
Without intending to jump into the Flame fest....
Brian, the above is not true, it (OE) causes lots of problems for EVERYBODY on the mailing list because it breaks threading for EVERYONE, not _just_ you.
That's why everyone goes off the deep end about OE so much, not because its broken for you, (which is your business) but, rather, that it breaks threads for everyone else by failure to include the entire thread reference in the headers. It totally messes up a mailing list by fracturing threads of messages into individual posts that appear totally unrelated except by title.
No one can tell you what to use, but if you just want to avoid installing thunderbird, why not get read the list with something that requires NO installation ANYWHERE? Like Gmail?
Hm. In that case you've told me something I didn't know. I happened to stop preferring thread view years ago and prefer to just read new posts in chronological order and "thread" them mentally. That's why I was mystified by the much smaller confusion a while back over another odd post where I needed to add a comment to a thread from a client that had no prior posts locally in the client at all since it was knoppix or maybe a transient install. So I posted with an obviously (to me) similar and related subject but freehand not an exact copy byte for byte, and lacking an actual post to quote I referred to it freehand, paraphrased as it were, and added the new info. I can't understand why that confused anyone. There was no fight or anything that time, it was just a little "twilight zone". Are we that helpless? Sadly I do need to use OE at least sometimes, both for testing so that my software stays perfectly compatible with most of my users mail clients and, In order to support the customers to the standard I wish, I pretty much have to actually use the same things they use. Not all the time for everything, but regularly enough so that I stay fully conversant with it down to the small day to day details. I don't want to tell them things like "configure you email client to use smtp on port 3525", I need to be able to be sitting in a cafe and walk them through each dialog exactly with no pc in front of me at least for the common things. But I don't need to use OE 100% of the time for that I guess. gmail? you like gmail? ('course, it's not like I actually "like" oe either. it just is. So I can't exactly call gmail worse.) -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org