Re: your subject-less mail
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:12:05AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 03:53:48AM EST, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:56:33PM -0500, Dave wrote:
>
> > > > I don't see any use in most of your X- headers. For example the MS
> > > > specific headers aren't of much use on this list.
> > >
> > > I'd think so too, but take a look at how many Outlookers appear on our
> > > list.
> > >
> > If there are any why make their lives difficult, aren't they more
> > likely to use mutt if we're nice to them? :-)
>
> That's one way to look at it.
Quite a valid and likely to be true one as well! :-)
> Another possibility is that they're
> more likely to stop using Outlook if they see how many neat features it
> provides to others and how few it provides to them. Most of them aren't
> likely to switch directly to Mutt anyway, but at least they might switch
> to a more standards-friendly GUI MUA. That's the first step on the road
> to Mutt :-)
>
Not a terribly plausible scenario IMHO, they're much more likely to be
annoyed and just go somewhere else. You may well feel that's a good
thing but I don't think that's a very positive way of looking at
things.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)