for my choice of client, and for reccommending the same.
As for most people on the internet? I'm just going to go with
Sturgeon's Law. When someone complained to Theodore Sturgeon (a famous
sf writer/editor) that 90% of science fiction was crap, he replied,
"Yes, but 90% of *everything* is crap."
--Ben
Michael Dinowitz wrote:
> I didn't call you stupid. I don't include you or most of the people I know
> in the classification of either 'most of the users on the internet' or
> 'dummies'. If you felt my general comment was directed at you, then I
> apologize. It was not my intent. We're programmers (most of us). We write
> the stuff that users use. Even those of us who don't are at least savvy
> enough to understand what's going on. We don't fall under the same category.
>
> Lets be honest here. Most internet users ARE stupid. There was a news report
> about a cop (yes, a police officer) who tried to pick up an underaged kid
> over the net (including flashing himself) AT WORK! If this isn't stupid, I
> don't know what is.
>
> As for bashing your email client, please feel free to bash mine as well. I
> use outlook express and it deserves to be bashed. :)
>
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>
>
> BTW -- it's fine to bash my email client. It's not nice to call me
> stupid for using it. My calling it "shiny" was a joke (since I'm
> generally not that impressed by pretties in the UI), and while I may not
> know the ins and outs of the email specifications, I think I've earned
> my chops as far as knowing my way around the internet.
>
> --Ben
> _____
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