15 Apr
2011
15 Apr
'11
11:04 a.m.
[ISP problems]
Of course I changed providers, and had to spend a
couple of weeks
Unfortuantely, that is not really an option for me.
downloading the mail files, importing them into
Thunderbird and moving
them to the new server. Thankfully all the files were RFC-822 format,
but I still had to rename them all. Thank goodness for bulk renaming
utilities. I didn't want to rename them in place in case I messed up so
I had to do it all in Windows. All this work I would still have had to
do if I had stayed with the old provider, of course. Obviously, paying a
provider to manage a server and do backups etc doesn't necessarily mean
they do it very well.
I have come to reliase that just because somebody is employed to do a
particular job, or just because they have a piece of paper qualifying
them to do a particualr job, it does not mean they are able to do that
job properly (or willing to do that job properly).
I suspect this somewhat colours my view of open-source .vs. commercial
software.
-tony