At 09:39 PM 2002-07-04 -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
>Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
>>
>>>Yeah, but you are not suggesting people should use Ouchlook
>>>instead of Eudora, are you?  If somebody insists on a GUI email
>>>client (and they're using Windows), what other alternatives
>>>are there to recommend?
>>
>>Certianly not Outhouse, but Mulberry would be my GUI in Windows if I used
>>GUIs and if I used Windows.
>
>Is anyone here capable of talking about a product they don't like without 
>making third-grade jokes about its name?  Or are you so threatened by it 
>you need to be defensive?

Lookout is so incredibly bad, both in usage and in security that one 
suspects it was Microsoft's attempt to kill e-mail.

And, no, we frequently talk about bad products without making fun of their 
names.  In this case it is tradition.  And, yes, those who use it are 
threatened by it..

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degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is 
worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to 
fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a 
miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the 
exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
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