Dragaera

warning to newbies

Tue Feb 10 12:13:11 PST 2004

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jason *Jaxel* Axelrod wrote:

@> > Actually... Pine gives you the option to top or bottom post depending on
@> > your preferences, but doesn't make the default something damned stupid.
@> > Either way, Outlook is lame. There is no reason to use Microsoft based
@> > programs anymore unless you want to be infected with virii every ten
@> > minutes and make your e-mail process take six times as long. Pine does
@> > everything you need for e-mail, and doesn't claim to do anything else.
@>
@> I've never received a virus using Microsoft Outlook.

You are alone in this world.

@> And instead of email only taking 1 nano-second, it takes 6... can you
@> really tell the difference?

I didn't mean the speed of sending the e-mail; that's why I said e-mail
process. Pine removes a lot of the bizarre crap that Outlook foists upon
you, such as mouseclicks[0]. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In
Outlook, how would I integrate it with gpg or another encryption program
of my choice? How would I write a program to generate a sequence of unique
signature lines for myself? How would I read e-mail remotely after
downloading it to my desktop? I do all of these things right now, with Pine.


[0] If you want it to. Pine will still let you use a mouse, if for some
reason you think you really should.