is dovecot really better than uw-imapd?

Marc Lucke marc at marcsnet.com
Mon Jun 21 01:01:30 UTC 2004


Neil Cherry wrote:

> Marc Lucke wrote:
>
>> Marc Lucke wrote:
>
>
>> I answer all my other email on top of the quoted message I am 
>> replying to because this seems to be the standard way to do things in 
>> the business world.  Indeed I like it because you can read answers 
>> straight up without having to scroll.  So why does everyone on this 
>> list still append their contirbution?  Anyone know?  I find it a bit 
>> annoying.
>
>
> This is bound to start a flame war but here goes:
>
> A: Top posting
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on mail lists?
>
> In the business world people are more concerned with blurting out an
> answer rather than working to resolve a problem. I hate when I get
> an email with a bazillion follow-ups. Reading the whole thing backwards
> is Microsoft's way of doing things and I waste a lot of time doing
> things their way (when I'm at work!). Oh, notice that I've cut out the
> portions of this message that are not longer useful! This is called
> netiquette we've been doing this before Microsoft had Windows and AOL
> thought it was the net.
>
I've been warned about this.  If I could retract my question.  My 
apologies for those that have seen this thread a million times before.  
I'm way more interested in my dovecot question.

Marc





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