I don't think it's passe. I think it's cool as hell. But that doesn't change the fact that whatever difficulties you run in to by doing *that*, are your own responsibility, not mine or anyone else's.
For example, if you discover that there is no such thing as a dos email client that can do ssl, and your isp or hotmail (also, hotmail? really? you thought that was an argument?) decides to stop supporting unencrypted smtp/pop/imap, it's you who has to absorb that, not the isp who has to go back. Not all change is progress or good of course, but much is both unavoidable and simply required. I didn't say I was ising gmail to imply gmail is the gold standard. I meant to imply that gmail is a fact of life like the weather. It exists and a bezillion people use it, and even if it IS doing something wrong, it's too bad. It's not reasonable to say "you can't use gmail". And what about the points I brought up with the formatting of his own email? If his argument about html were valid, then mine were too. I know exactly what I did and did not say, or even imply, and I did not say anything either wrong or unfair. If you don't like the fact that I rejected someone's attempt to criticize me, then I suggest go have a problem with them for picking the damned fight in the first place. I didn't try to tell anyone else what to do to please ME. Why the hell isn't THAT the problem rather than my rejection of it? If you would say something to me, be right, or be prepared to have me say something right back. Don't even try to make this about tone or some crap like that either. The tone is set by someone else starting something, and now someone else picking it up when they decide they don't like how I declined to participate. If you don't like how I react, remember that the word is react. I didn't initiate this stupid conversation. If you don't like it, then don't start it or re-start it when it had ended weeks ago. For example, I didn't come on here this morning and decide, "I'm going to ridicule someone for using hotmail." OK? This thing was done and I had let it die, and I didn't even take the last word back when it died or anything. I said my piece and let the OP have his parting crack. But I'm the asshole. Fine by me, yes I am. -- bkw On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 4:05 AM Jim Williams <hira...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2018 3:38 PM, m100-requ...@lists.bitchin100.com wrote: > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:40:27 -0400 > From: Brian White <bw.al...@gmail.com> <bw.al...@gmail.com> > To: m...@bitchin100.com > Subject: Re: [M100] New Age Digital Storage Box (NADSBox) > Message-ID: > <CAO0vv2bHWmRLJwGKY4g_Fy6wxS9MGTjSABKcjiCFS=sjwmn...@mail.gmail.com> > <CAO0vv2bHWmRLJwGKY4g_Fy6wxS9MGTjSABKcjiCFS=sjwmn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Ok, just remember who started this conversation... > > > > If you are reading email in pine or mutt in 2018, well I applaud you, but I > consider that your choice to self-flaggelate, not anyone else's reasonable > obligation to cater to. > > Hello... this is a RADIO SHACK TRS80 MODEL 100 mailing list... 35 year old > vintage technology... not real persuasive making fun of people on this list > for using... vintage technology. > > I use hotmail for this mailing list, at present. I intend purging myself > of gmail (along with all things Giggle) as much, as soon as possible. I'm > also working to do as much of my computing as possible under DOS 6.22 / WFW > 3.11 because I have that kind of perverse personality (what I have to do > with modern hardware/software I'll do under Linux). Hopefully, if I can get > SSL working with it, Arachne will be my browser of choice, and probably my > mail client as well. And I won't care in the least if you think it's > passe'. > > When convenient, you might consider searching with DuckDuckGo for > "dilettante". > > > >
