Arvid On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:04 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > be lucky you can use outlook. we can't becouse we're stuck with linux. Imap > isn't exactly easy to implement and so you can expect most clients to just > suck at it.
I'm a Linux user and have been a Unix hack since about 1989. I don't run any Windows OSs personally and haven't since Win95. I did work for a company that forced me to use Win2K but I didn't enjoy the experience. I guess it what you're use to. The tools you use to do shape the way you look at a problem and how you solve it. I now free lance as a consultant and one of my clients decided that he need some key functions on a fail-over system after the PDU died in his M$ SBServer. Now I will not blame M$ for hardware failures, not my style. The fault here was his. Even though the server had slots for two PDU he only had one. Not the case any more. But it did show him how reliant his business was on SBServer. When it was off-line for two days (waiting for a replacement PDU) no one could work. No access to e-mails, no access to files. That made him realise that his business needed a fail-over system for some key functions: e-mail and files. He first when to some other consultants looking for a simple solution for file storage and e-mail. The prices varied, but they were all high, and he said with the maximum cost came out at £20,000 - for just the hardware and software. When he asked me I came up with a Linux based solution which only cost £2.500. Of course that was just the hardware costs because all the software used is free. Another advantage of using a different OS to his primary system is that it is very unlikely that malware will take out both primary and backup system at the same time. I guess what I'm saying is that the best solutions to a problem are those that use a variety of different platforms. Interoperability is the key to the smooth running of a business over the inevitable failures and problems that will come along. > Oh list-id. awesome idea. I always used To and got pissed becouse some > people > use CC ;) And should anyone use the BCC header you wouldn't be able to filter it at all. I wish I could claim credit for the idea of using the list-id, but I was told on a Debian mail-list that that was the best way of filtering. Steve -- Steve Dobson That does not compute.
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