Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
>
> [1] e-mail
> Personaly I prefer Arachne to outlook. She is good but not perfect.
> When I receive attachments in Word, Exel or Adobe PDF I have to swith to
> windows (for word I use view.exe to read the text in Arachne).
and Clarence Verge responded:
>When I get an attachment of THOSE types I either delete the entire message
>or complain strongly to the sender.
Congratulations, Clarence! We need people to take a stand for readable email
and news!
The way MS is trying to force everybody to Windoze hardens my resistance, so
that I don't want to buy anything from MS! A computer where I can install
DR-DOS 7.03, Linux and NetBSD. I don't like to feel bullied into Windows.
Now there was a message by Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on the
<freebsd-announce.FreeBSD.ORG> emailing list, message body 92 lines, might be
in newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce or at
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:08:52 -0700 (PDT)
Jordan Hubbard, after working at Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDI, and WindRiver
Systems, has taken a job with Apple Computer to work on BSD Unix-based Mac OS X.
I haven't seen Mac OS X in action, but what I hear/read looks impressive.