On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 19:55 +0000, Bobby Pejman wrote: > I must say, I never heard or even thought of the idea of calling it LookOut. Hahaha. It made me laugh for a good 10 minutes and if that term is open source, I will be using it ;) > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Bob McConnell" <rvm@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:01:55 > To: Michelle Konzack<linux4michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: Re: replying to list (I give up) > From: Michelle Konzack > > > Hello Peter Lind, > > > > Am 2010-04-21 15:47:54, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > >> And waste time every single time you post to the list ... why do > >> people become programmers/developers again? To end creating technical > >> solutions they can then avoid using by doing extra, pointless manual > >> work? > > > > Hmmm, being a Programmer/Developer since 1982 and have ever used > decent > > tools to accomplish a task... including the right MUA which > simplify > > the Programmers/Developers daily mailing tasks. > > > >> Anyway, if there's no chance of changing the minds of the people > >> administering the list, the discussion might as well end now. > > > > Why should Programmers/Developers bother with non-reliable MUAs > which > > do not support Programmers/Developers daily mailing tasks? > > > > If YOU are a Programmer/Developer why do you bother with a > non-suitable > > MUA? > > Probably because we don't have a choice. There is a legion of PHBs that > make those decisions for us, obviously without having any information > about what tools are really needed. I have to hand edit every response I > send here and to several other lists in order to add the quote markers > and move my content to the correct location. Lookout no longer offers > that option. It also lacks the reply-to-list action as well as several > others that would make life easier and simpler for everyone. I can't > replace it because it is closely bound to our Exchange servers for > scheduling and planning. So I won't have an option until after I retire, > and then I won't need this list at all. Fortunately, that is only a > couple of years away at most. > > Bob McConnell > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > Outlook is a pita sometimes. At my last job I just used Evolution and connected over the OWA, as at the time I had to use my own laptop because of a lack of computers available. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
