Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

[Keith G. Murphy]

Pigeon wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:00:57AM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
>
>> Ehem. Mail-Copies-To: never. Doesn't mutt respect that header?
>>
>> "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>>>
>>>
>>>> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html
>>>>
>>>> Tell your father to stop using OE, or any other MS mailer.
>>>> They're all broken and should never be used by anyone for any
>>>> purpose. Unless, of course, you want to demonstrate how
>>>> piss-poor MS software can be.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, I'll give him your phone number to call when he has questions
>>> and can't understand why the background on his mailer changed
>>> colors. He's 65 and has just learned windows in the last 2
>>> years, uses his computer just to send email every other day so
>>> he's oh so motivated to learn something new every day instead of
>>> going out on the boat fishing or what not down in his Fla
>>> retirement village.
>>
>> Just because he uses windows doesn't mean he has to use quite
>> possibly the worst piece of software *ever* written. There's a few
>> relatively sane email clients available for windows. If he
>> refuses to learn to use a new mailer, then he can live with opening
>> signed mails as attachments, break virtually every rule of email
>> netiquette, risk getting/spreading viruses, etc. I won't lose any
>> sleep over it.
>
>
> OE sucks, but it does have the one merit that it's easy for someone
> who knows nothing about computers to Send And Receive An Email.
> Having got that far, everything else is a pain in the arse.
>
I always wonder why no one mentions Netscape|Mozilla Messenger in this
vein. It seems very easy to me, has good features, and the price is right.



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