On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:54:53PM -0400, Steve Reed wrote:
I think it would be very considerate of the list members if
whoever runs this mailing list would PLEASE wake up and ban the
living daylights out of Wilson and his barrage of viruses.
What for? Wilson isn't the problem. The problem is that we're not in
92 anymore. What I'd like to see is a sublist that drops anything that
isn't ASCII only and also everything that is sent with Windos MUAs.
For the fun of it, I just killed everything that said Outlook
(Express), Eudora, Pegasus and Webmail for the last month. Trust me,
the list suddenly became good.
So Robin, despite the fact that I just finished building a qmail cluster
using 3 Sun 220R's load balanced behind a pair of F5 Networks Big/IP's,
qmail 1.03, vpopmail, courier-imap, sqwebmail, mysql and apache handling
1,000,000 users across 5,400 domains, I should be banned from your sublist
because I choose to use Outlook Express???
Yes, lots of clueless people use Windows and Windows MUA's. But some of use
also use Windows and Windows MUA's, and *DO* have a clue. Be carefull about
making sweeping statements. And before you blast me for using Windows
instead of, say Linux, there are a number of applications that I need to use
on a daily basis to run my business effectively and effeciently, that still
don't have the features I need on Linux. And yes, I've tried Star Office -
and I'm still having problems installing it on a Mandrake 7.2 box. I just
upgraded to Mandrake 8, but I haven't tried it there yet. Trust me - the
day I can get all the features I feel I need without using any MS apps, I'm
there. But I'm not going to dump MS just to spite MS without having what
*I* consider suitable replacements - not you, or the rest of the rabid
Anti-MS bridgade.
Dave Weiner
CTO, WebMasters, Inc.
800-472-9203
http://www.webmast.com