On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 00:27 +0100, Owen Smith wrote: > I too found the "get yourself a real computer" offensive.
Pfft. It's a Dilbert quote. You can choose to be offended. I can choose not to care. > Yes some people make life hard for themselves unnecessarily, but > others have little choice in what they run for various reasons. Why > should someone who's XP computer does want they want spend time, > effort and money upgrading it? OK linux is free, but maybe they're > unable to learn to use, don't have the time, or have software they > need to use which only runs on Windows or even just XP. I understand there are plenty of standards-compliant mail clients which run on Windows XP, without having to upgrade the whole system. > I used to write email software for a living, including RFC-822 etc. > The golden rule was "be conservative in what you originate, and > generous in what you accept". This mailing list clearly violates the > latter half ... and deliberately so. To avoid the problems with broken threading and thread hijacking, all my lists are explicitly configured to require standards-compliance in that respect. > and I suggest it violates the first half too the way it handles > replies. Hm, why so? It doesn't really *generate* anything, does it? > I run Vista on my PC. How soon before I'm told to get a real > computer? It seems to be functioning correctly. I don't see why you'd ever be told that, until/unless it stops working and you are sending invalid messages to the list. -- dwmw2
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