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I hate Eudora so much.  So very much.  And I don't even use it.

I hate it because I hate all things that foster and encourage stupidity
in computer users, and Eudora does this with a vengeance.

Please, Eudora programmers: they are called "mail headers".  The whole
world calls them "headers".  People who don't know what a header is will
not bother to make use of a menu option which refers to headers, or
they'll try it out to see what it does and they won't be harmed.  They
do not now, nor did they ever, need an option called, "Blah blah blah".

Seriously.  "Blah blah blah"?  What the fuck good is that going to do
anybody?  Eudora users can't tell one flavor of "Blah blah blah" from
another so why not call them HEADERS?  Do you know how stupid it sounds
when a tech support person tells somebody to "turn on your 'Blah blah
blah' option"?  The obvious and inevitable first response is "Huh?"  And
do you know how stupid I feel when I ask any member of our user
community to please send me a copy of a particular e-mail with the
headers attached, when I know that chances are pretty good that they're
a Eudora user and can't tell a header from a hole in the ground from
their Blah blah blah?  But I dare not say to them, by the way, if you're
a Eudora user, please activate your Blah blah blah option, because that
would make me sound like some sort of patronizing idiot.

• eudora mjinks 20:31 on 30 Sep 2003
  • Re: eudora peter (Peter da Silva) 20:42 on 30 Sep 2003
    • too deep to show
  • Phil!Gregory 20:57 on 30 Sep 2003
    • too deep to show
  • re: Eudora- changing the gripes Paul Mison 23:15 on 30 Sep 2003
    • too deep to show

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