From: Marina Brown <marina@surferz.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme + mh
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 10:35:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E4C9D8.4050707@surferz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E41892.70506@lanl.gov>
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> how is it working out for people? I have been using Sirius Cybernetics
> Thunderbird, which was supposed to be some kind of Miracle Mail
> program, and am finding it to be less than perfect. Actually, it kinda
> sucks. It has an autocomplete that is wrong in a very annoying
> fashion, since it is usually right, but goes wrong in very strange
> ways, and your mail to andrey goes to andrew before you know it -- you
> type andrey, it autocompletes in some strange way, it ignores the 'y'
> -- I've tested this a few times. Happy People Movers have nothing on
> the Sirius Cybernetics Thunderbird mail program!
>
> It has a way of deciding that once the network is gone, and you send,
> you can never retry the send again in some cases without exiting the
> damned thing (it just happened again while editing this message: "the
> mail server is gone. It won't be back ever again. It's hopeless. I
> won't even try. You humans really enjoy this kind of thing, don't you?
> I'm so depressed. I'll just go in a corner and rust" -- I wish!).
>
> The list goes on, but I am overall finding that it is a very
> happy-puppy like piece of software, anxious to get in there and do
> things for you, making you trip over it, and most of the time making
> you want to tell it to shut up and go hide in a corner before you get
> out a rolled-up newspaper.
>
> I especially like the way, when viewing messages, you hit 'delete' to
> kill the message and move on, and it somehow loses track of what it
> was doing, so it's no longer pointing to any message, and you have to
> grab the mouse and find a message to select so you can proceeed.
> Weird. The gnome library seems to have a lot of this strange corner
> case behavior. (the list goes on .... it's interesting to have to
> resize ethereal windows so you can get the vertical scrollbar to
> realize that you just traced 10,000 packets, and want to see more than
> the 12 currently shown)
>
> What I want is a mail reader that will ... oh, never mind, I think I
> want the macos x mail reader. But who knows, maybe that's as bad as
> all the others.
>
> how easy is it to read mail, refile mail, search mail, etc. Any
> comments on usability? If you do like it, what other mail clients have
> you used? Inquiring, happy-puppy-fatigued minds want to know!
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>
>
>
At work and for my lists i use mozilla thunderbird which sucks - but
less than other
stuff that can view html. I wish i could turn off all fonts. I hate fonts.
For my personal mail it's pine, which sucks but feels like home.
-- Marina Brown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-04 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-04 2:59 Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-04 3:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-04 5:00 ` Rob Pike
2006-02-04 5:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-04 5:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-06 20:44 ` Dan Cross
2006-02-04 22:31 ` David Leimbach
2006-02-04 4:10 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-05 5:29 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-05 5:54 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 6:00 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-05 6:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 7:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-05 15:47 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-05 15:58 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 9:16 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-05 16:01 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-05 18:46 ` Bakul Shah
2006-02-07 11:28 ` John Stalker
2006-02-07 13:47 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-07 15:43 ` Richard Bilson
2006-02-07 15:54 ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-07 16:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-02-07 22:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-07 22:48 ` Brantley Coile
2006-02-07 22:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-10 19:45 ` rog
2006-02-06 11:18 ` Enrique Soriano
2006-02-06 16:21 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-06 16:42 ` uriel
2006-02-06 17:00 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-06 19:43 ` Joel Salomon
2006-02-06 19:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-07 2:26 ` geoff
2006-02-05 14:46 ` Jason Gurtz
2006-02-05 18:14 ` Marina Brown
2006-02-04 4:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-04 4:29 ` Serge Gagnon
2006-02-04 16:11 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-02-04 16:57 ` uriel
2006-02-04 20:17 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-04 20:34 ` uriel
2006-02-04 20:50 ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-02-05 5:31 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-02-04 9:31 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-02-04 17:48 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-04 22:35 ` David Leimbach
2006-02-04 23:41 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-05 0:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-04 14:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-06 16:30 ` Tim Wiess
2006-02-06 16:42 ` Gabriel Ivanes
2006-02-04 15:35 ` Marina Brown [this message]
2006-02-04 3:29 erik quanstrom
2006-02-04 3:49 quanstro
2006-02-04 4:25 quanstro
2006-02-05 0:47 quanstro
2006-02-05 5:06 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 17:56 ` Micah Stetson
2006-02-05 18:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 18:20 ` ems
2006-02-05 18:23 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-05 18:33 ` ems
2006-02-05 18:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-02-07 1:02 quanstro
2006-02-10 19:39 ` rog
2006-02-07 1:05 quanstro
2006-02-07 6:04 ` Tim Wiess
2006-02-08 2:04 quanstro
2006-02-08 4:52 ` Tim Wiess
2006-02-08 12:06 quanstro
2006-02-10 19:47 quanstro
2006-02-11 16:51 quanstro
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