On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Wayne M. Smith wrote:
> > Everyone who uses Outhouse Express should immediately go to the Pegasus
> > website and download a copy of Pegasus which is FREEWARE and about 1000
> > times better than that horrid piece of shit that Microscoff passes off as
> > software.
> >
> >
http://www.pmail.com
> >
> > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
>
> There's something worse -- it's called Netscape mail. We were just forced
to start using it (or, alternatively, the even worse
AOL
Mail) at work
"because we own it." Completely unconfigurable.
Am I missing something, but aren't OE and Netscape freeware too?
Free as in "free from crashing your computer" and "free from allowing
e-mail viruses to destroy your files" and "free from Bill Gates'
stranglehold on all that is impure and horrid".
Well to be honest, before Netscape mail, I was using Outlook (not OE) at work. No
problems for 2 years straight -- never down.
In fact, I had never even heard the term "kicked off" until I started using
Netscape last month. Now I'm "kicked off" four of five
times a day. But that's ok, because when it happens, I know who is to blame,
especially in the late afternoon when I'm restarting
Netscape Mail for the 4th or 5th time, because then I think about everything that Netscape
Mail could be, but isn't, because of all
those anticompetitive things that MS did, I mean, everyone know's it's all
MS's fault. I wasn't born yesterday and I'm not fooled
at all by Outlook, even if it was up 24 hours a day for two years running, and allowed me
to put the sender column on the far left
(where it should be). That's no reason to use it, or even tolerate it, and thankfully
I don't have that option any more. I'm not
suffering, I'm liberated. (I'm also wasting about 20 minutes a day.)