On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 00:01, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Heh, you could've started a nice rumble again on the html versus plain text > mails=;o) >
Well, we have to face the fact that sometimes we're going to get mail from MS Outlook mongoloids, so with the ability to either send/view/reply to HTML formatted email easily and quickly, we're playing nicely with the primitives. Besides, sometimes it's not a bad thing to send an HTML formatted email - for me, price lists, informational epiphanies, letters to mom... > Personally evo's gui gives me a sort of 'cooped up' feeling like netscape > always did as a browser. The GUI can be changed quite easily and quickly...you DON'T have to have it show the "Shortcut Bar" - which saves some speed as well...but hey, to each their own! I put chili sauce on my eggs, you might not! (g) > I like the crisp and open feel of kmail and last but certainly not least: > Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec laptops because it fires up so quickly > when using other desktops like xfce or icewm. > It just takes a few secs to have it up and running contary to almost half a > minute for evo, kmail and mozilla. > KMail's interface is nice, true enough - it shares the "continuity of feel" that all KDE applications have - and that's cool. But if Evolution is taking you more than 10 seconds or so to start up, then either it's not configured properly, your drives aren't optimised, you lib paths aren't optimised, or the computer is a tad on the slow side... > Very nice if you've just connected with a very expensive foreign > gsm-connection and discover you forgot to start the mailclient before > connecting. A definite $-saver for me=:o) > Maybe even PINE or MUTT would be faster? (g) -- Mon, 24 Feb 2003 06:50:00 +1100 6:50am up 4 days, 19:33, 7 users, load average: 0.28, 0.30, 0.32 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being ... The machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be incalculable ... -- Marvin Minsky, LIFE Magazine, November 20, 1970
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