[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > Why should I spend my free time for people who subscribe themselves to
> > Microsoft [<-- Some may note even know they are subscribing to
> Microsoft, its just the only email service they know] 

Entering <http://www.hotmail.com>, I get:
- MSN Hotmail Logo at the top,
- "2001 Microsoft Corporation" at the bottom.

> just to save a few bucks and then refuse to take any
> > inconvience to remedy their fault? [<--- Some will say that it isn't 
> a fault].

Whose fault is it then? Surely not mine.

They baught something a company sold with nice (and not incorrect) words 
to them, and they didn't think. In a free market, that's called "stupid" 
and it is considered their own fault.

> Regarding what Ben Bucksch wrote (which is below, by the way), if you 
> are a mozilla programmer, you should be absolutely ashamed. You seem 
> to assume that all your programming efforts are for yourself.

I didn't say that. But I think I can estimate how many and which 
programmers work on Mozilla, and nobody looks very keen on doing 
something like that. If you are, be my guest. Implement it.

I am not ashamed when somebody says "You should do X" and I answer "No, 
I have better things to do".

> They partly are, however, Mozilla has been created not for those 
> individual programmers but for everyone to use and share.

Well, fine, then do share and implement it.

> There are many out there who have absolutely NO idea what microsoft 
> are like, who they are

Anybody reading a newspaper should know these days that MS is convicted 
of being an illegal monopoly "or something like that". It is generally 
not a good sign for a company to be sued by a government at all.

> Things just don't work like that. The only way you can get more people 
> to start using Mozilla Mail is if it supports their favourite email 
> service

... and do Y and Z and A and B and C and D and E and F and G and H and ...

Get the picture?

> I'd love to lead it myself, only I don't know hardly anything on 
> programming

There we have the root problem.

> I'm interested but I just wouldn't know how to, and learning how to 
> would just waste precious time when those who do know could be doing it.

How about *my* precious time? Don't you think *I* have better things to 
do as well?

Thank you very much...

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