On or about 1/30/2010 1:03 AM, Lou typed the following:
> Russell wrote:
>> As someone who's been on the web since the beginning with Mosaic , then
>> Netscape, then AOL Netscape (ugh) , then Netscape re-born as
>> Seamonkey, it's a
>> sad day to have to give up and move on,
>>
>> The end comes with v2.x, Seamonkey and the decision to no longer be a
>> simple
>> browser, but that it must be an ‘all or nothing' suite. So if you need
>> to use
>> another email client then it will just screw up your whole way of
>> working.
>>
>> I'm convinced that this was a ‘behind the doors' decision with the
>> Firefox crowd
>> to justify Mozilla supporting a second browser project, and they then
>> agreed
>> that Seamonkey would only continue as an integrated suite, and that's
>> the only
>> way users will be able to use it (fatal error imo).
>>
>> The Firefox crowd will be happy to hear that I know of at least 5
>> users (this
>> week alone) who have moved to other browsers as there is no upgrade
>> path for
>> them beyond  v1.1.18. Meanwhile Firefox continues to offer an email
>> client
>> (Thunderbird) as a OPTION and that's probably where they will go, as
>> have I, for
>> now. But this whole thing smacks of nasty backroom BS. I'll hold my
>> nose and use
>> Firefox for now. But it's sad to have to say goodbye to a browser I've
>> used and
>> promoted for so many years.
>>
>> R.
> Why would you want to use another E-mail client?  I think that most
> people that gravitate towards Seamonkey do it because of the all-in-one
> browser/e-mail client integration.
> 
> Lou

Absolutely.  That is just one of the reasons I've used Netscape,
Mozilla, and now SeaMonkey.

-- 
Ed
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My first thought is usually wrong, criminal, or selfish.
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