Re: How do I hate CPAN, let me count the ways...

2007-05-08 Thread Robert Spier
You mean, how it currently points at ftp.cpan.org, which is multiplexed, doesn't do enough for you? Do your homework. -R (wetware hater) At Mon, 7 May 2007 13:12:35 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote: > > shouldn't we be pointing at http://www.cpan.org and let the cpan multiplexer > pass us to an a

Thunderbird hate

2007-05-08 Thread Gerry Lawrence
SIgh. I've used thunderbird for years, even before it was thunderbird, netscape mail. It seems that developers for thunderbird and all other mozilla projects are hell bent on: 1) Adding as many features as possible, especially if their utility is questionable. 2) Making sure that the keybind

Re: \quoting problems

2007-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:04:56AM -0400, Adam Atlas wrote: > I think most people are at least sane enough not to write their email > systems in PHP. Shame how popular Squirrelmail is. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I apologize if I offended you personally, I in

Re: \quoting problems

2007-05-08 Thread Adam Atlas
On 8 May 2007, at 09.02, Adam Atlas wrote: On 8 May 2007, at 08.46, Yossi Kreinin wrote: Or something. I wonder what inserts that backslash. I'm pretty sure I've seen it from people reading their mail using both Outlook/Windows and Thunderbird/Linux. Is it done at the server side, or is it

\quoting problems

2007-05-08 Thread Yossi Kreinin
Lots of programs quote some of the characters of their input strings. A subset of those unquote the characters in their output. This message is about the other subset. I keep getting auto-reply messages saying something like this: I can't answer the message (\your software sucks) right now be

It's a _modifier_ key, dammit

2007-05-08 Thread Aaron Crane
Sometimes the small hates are the most consuming ones. My desktop uses Gnome. I mostly like it; it's certainly not hate-free, but it's not the topic of today's rant. OpenOffice.org.o.OoOO.Oooo runs on my Gnome desktop. I don't really like OpenOffice, but some idiot has sent me a picture as, of