From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
"'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, miles@gnu.org,
'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: smtp crap
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:22:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6DF172AADA4ABE91811E8F1C792488@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aa97nghb.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> > I cannot speak for Posix platforms nowadays, but I do know
> > that almost every Windows box out there has its mail client set up
>
> Considering the increasing popularity of webmail, this may not be true
> anymore.
Really? Is that in relative terms? Numbers of emails sent per...?
> Also, I don't like the argument that we should treat Windows users
> differently from users on other platforms, just because they
> are likely to use some proprietary mail client.
So now non-GNU-Emacs means "proprietary"? Gonflés, we are.
Here is Wikipedia's list of email clients:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients
Is Gnus the only one of them that you bless with the holy baptismal water of
"freeness"? Shall we load the cannons and blast the bejesus out of Thunderbird,
Mutt, and Seamonkey?
> In that context, offering to set up Emacs for sending email
> is actually good, if it encourages less dependence on such
> mail clients.
So this _is_ about pushing people to use Emacs/Gnus for email. The word
"misguided" comes to mind... I guess this is what a little Gnus can do to you.
("This is your Emacs. And this is your Emacs on Gnus...")
"Offer" to set up Emacs for sending mail all you want, but please keep the
SPECIAL OFFER!!! stuff under wraps. Let users actually come looking for it
before you "offer" it to them, please. (What exciting popups are in store for
us in Emacs 24.2?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-12 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-08 2:02 smtp crap Miles Bader
2011-10-08 4:14 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-08 6:17 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 7:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-08 13:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-08 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-09 14:50 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-10-09 23:58 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-10 11:19 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-08 14:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-09 5:53 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-10 21:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-10 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-10 22:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-10 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 5:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 5:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 12:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 19:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-11 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 22:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-12 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 14:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 16:00 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-10-11 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 21:21 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-11 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 22:41 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-11 22:54 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 22:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-11 23:11 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-12 0:01 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-12 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 14:04 ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-12 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-12 1:30 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-12 3:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-10-12 4:50 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-12 6:33 ` joakim
2011-10-12 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-12 10:24 ` joakim
2011-10-12 11:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 9:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-12 14:16 ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-12 14:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-12 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-12 15:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-10-12 11:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-12 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-08 8:17 ` David Engster
2011-10-08 8:52 ` Bastien
2011-10-08 12:36 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-08 14:10 ` Harry Putnam
2011-10-10 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-10 22:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-11 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-11 5:10 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-10 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 0:34 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-11 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 4:20 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-11 4:41 ` chad
2011-10-11 5:34 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-11 5:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-11 5:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 5:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-11 5:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 17:58 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 18:14 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-10-26 21:48 ` chad
2011-10-26 22:32 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 23:13 ` chad
2011-10-27 0:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 2:51 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27 0:23 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27 1:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-09 1:28 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-10-09 6:06 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-09 14:55 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
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2011-10-08 2:08 Miles Bader
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