Re: Mirapoint.

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From: mjinks
Subject: Re: Mirapoint.
Date: 09:26 on 04 Feb 2005
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:11:47PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> worst case,

always comforting to hear the mother tongue...

> couldn't you suck all your mail off of the blasted thing via
> IMAP or POP and filter locally?

oh sure, but we (for Sabrina and i are by the same scourge afflicted)
now find our team's name attached against our better judgment and in
spite of our both open and passive-aggressive protests to this Upgrade
of a mail system which serves rather a large body of customers, which
Upgrade, oddly enough, was putatively not intended to produce the
presently-beginning defection from the One True Centralized Mail System
by all those posessed of the requisite clue to run mail servers on
their own desktops or to garner unixish services from the random d00d
running the LiGnUx box down the hall.

our own mail's fine.  so's our friends'.  our professional reputations
and our sanity, on the other hand, are at the mercy of the imperative to
cater to the comfort of the 95% while the 5% can bloody well cease and
desist all that petty hollering about open whoozits and flexible best
practimawhatever.

i guess i've digressed from hatesing the sofware (though i do, oh i do)
to hatesing some of the reasons why software is made hatesable.  sorry
about that.  so to bring things back around: Solaris, Mozilla, the 
firmware on my home machine's SCSI controller, EMACS, and Mailman can
all just lick me.

thanks,
-jinks

ps: fuck cyclades.
There's stuff above here

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