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On or around Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:56:04 +1300, EMB <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>Mother wrote:
>
>> Ah, it was the
>>
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10)
>> Gecko/20050716 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104
>>
>> that was fooling me ;-)
>
>Doze box here that's used for remote support of clients. A RedHat box
>at work running mail and web for a few clients, and the bloody E4000
>humming away in my garage that I've just sucked a whole load of data off
>for a client and is on it's way to a new home. I'd always wondered what
>would *actually* happen with typing rm -rf /. and now I know.

I take it you've seen

http://www.justpasha.org/folk/rm.html

?
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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost (1874-1963) from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

On or around Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:25:27 +0000, PDannyD
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>If I was still running Windows I'd still be using Outlook Express. Many
>people say it's crap but when set up correctly and in good hands it is very
>nice to use. Hideously out of date though.

yebbut, you've hit the nail on the head up there. 90% at the very least are
neither of the things you said.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost (1874-1963) from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

On or around Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:47:06 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:51:55 -0000, "Richard Brookman"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I agree. I downloaded Free Agent a while ago after reading about it on here
>>and used it for a day or two, but like you I found it a bit tiresome and not
>>offering any advantage over OE. I'm sure it can do some clever tricks, but
>>I don't really need them and I found the interface irritating.
>
>I like it because it doesn't have lots of tricks - does what I want a
>text based interface to a text based media to do, and has never fallen
>over in the 10+ odd years I've used it.
>
>Mind, I often view the entire Internet as 'just text' which is a step
>up from viewing it as a series of 0s and 1s

I've been using Agent for ages and have yet to find anything I'd want to
replace it with, although thunderbird is good and if I were looking now I
might well go with that on cost grounds.

Having said that, I paid 29 bucks for Agent when I first registered version
1.90 or somesuch, and I think I paid another fee to get version 2.0, and
then got 3.0 on the strength of that, so I don't reckon I've done badly.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost (1874-1963) from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening