I think the problem comes down to who she corresponds to and not the actual mail agent. Through my years of training people to use computers the vast majority has been loathe to migrate to another mail environment, and 90% of them say its because they don't want to lose all of the people they communicate with.
Of course, we know that simple diligence in notifying correspondents of the new address and maintainng both addresses for a bit easily, if not conveniently, gets over that impasse. I think, Joel, that if you were to present a clearly laid out plan of action that helps her migrate she will listen. Even suggest that she look at a few applications and try using the one that she likes the best for a bit with a test account. I know that sounds silly, to just pick the one that looks nice, but if she finds the interface appealing, she will be more likely to try it. >From the 6th Chakra of Tyler Regas :) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Net Llama > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 3:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: <OT> Re: iMAC and Linux > > > --- Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:28 am,Joel Hammer wrote: > > > Is anyone using the new iMAC on a network with linux servers > > > (dhcp,samba, gateway)? > > > > > > My wife's win98 box is dying, along with the monitor. > This might be > > a > > > nice time to buy an apple. She will not use linux since > it won't run > > > AOL. > > > > I don't want to start a war here, but isn't that a good > reason to dump > > > > AOL? I did exactly because of this. > > I also dont' quite understand this. What is so compelling > about AOL email that makes it worthwhile to spend almost $350/year? > > I spend $0/year for my email, and if my wife gave me some > non-negotiable argument, i'd still hold my ground. Your home > isn't a business, you're not going to lose productivity hours > (and dollars) getting them to learn an alternative. If email > is that important, then she could learn to use > a free alternative fast enough. Perhaps she needs a 12 step > plan? ;) > > ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > . > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
