[PLUG] Webmail server suggestions

[Paul Johnson]

Trim the sigs and excess newlines when quoting, and fix your line
wrap, please.  I'm not calling you stupid, but put some effort into
making your message legible.

Michael Robinson <plug_0 at robinson-west.com> writes:

>>>Don't punish your correspondents just because
>>>you're a lazy bastard uninterested in solving your own problems.
>>
>>Well said.
>
> Who says allowing local users to restrict certain addresses so that
> you have to be on a list to send to them is in any way punishment?

Why should I have to essentially subscribe to your mailbox to send you
email?

> Indeed it gives local users the freedom to associate with Internet
> email sources in a way they may very much appreciate.  After all, I
> don't want to step on anyone's freedom to assemble as they deem fit.

And spams the hell out of innocent bystanders as your retarded CR
system joe-jobs anybody whose address gets forged by spammers and the
latest critical Windows exploit of the nanosecond.

> As far as being deserving of a derogatory label, no comment.  When
> it comes to being lazy on a public mailing list, I suppose I could
> be lazy privately and seek to have my questions answered on an
> individual basis so the larger Portland Linux User's Group community
> will be guranteed to not benefit in any way.

And get no QA on the answers you get back.  You only have to get
burned once for it to hurt.

> I know the information I gave was mostly correct, isn't it a shame
> that I'm not as stupid as some people want me to be?

Nobody called you stupid.

> I'm glad some people choose to be positive and helpful.  Actually, I
> think I'm approaching what AOL does.  I agree that they are not
> evil.

Are we talking about the same AOL?  AOL and OE are only reasons the
email and Usenet world has the calendar stuck on September 1993.

http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html

-- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo at ursine.ca>
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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