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* Re: Test mail
@ 2001-07-30 19:59 Per Jessen
  2001-07-30 20:23 ` William Scott Lockwood III
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Per Jessen @ 2001-07-30 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

>On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:19:17 -0400 (EDT), Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
>Torrey Hoffman writes:
>
>> I hate to jump in and extend this mostly off-topic thread, but I would be
>> a little annoyed if Outlook was banned from LKML.  I've got two machines
>> on my desk here at work - one is Win2K, and is used almost exclusively for 
>> Outlook and Word.  It's very difficult to give those up when the rest of
>> the company uses them extensively.  The automatic meeting scheduling and
>> other MS Exchange features of Outlook are not available in other clients, 
>> and why should I switch when Outlook works fine?  

Completely agree. I am in the exact same situation. I need/want to follow
Linux development, but my corporate desktop is MS, Outlook etc. 
What's wrong with that ? (my development systems are not connected to 
anything else but our internal network.)

>> Of course the other computer runs Linux, and is where all my real work
>> gets done.  It's convenient to have both environments.
>
>This does not mean you have to use Outlook to _send_ mail to
>the linux-kernel mailing list. Do this:
>
>1. log into the Linux box you have
>2. run emacs
>3. Control-x m
>4. fill in the header fields and write your message
>5. Control-c Control-c

Bollocks. Look, the main target here is practicality, and what
you just demonstrated was plainly impractical.

>If you really must send mail directly from the Windows box,
>get emacs for Windows and skip step 1 above.

This is an awful lot of effort just to overcome some peoples
failure to avoid double-clicking on attachments in Outlook.

>
>BTW, if you can't log into anything that can open an SMTP connection
>to the outside world and don't have a relay, then most likely your
>employer doesn't want you sending stuff to linux-kernel anyway.

Disagree. See above and join life in the real world.


regards,
Per Jessen, Zurich.

regards,
Per Jessen



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2001-07-30 19:59 Test mail Per Jessen
2001-07-30 20:23 ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31  8:34   ` christophe barbé
2001-07-31 11:42     ` William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 12:09       ` christophe barbé
2001-07-31 12:28         ` [OT] " William Scott Lockwood III
2001-07-31 21:02         ` OT: M$Exchange stuff for Linux/UNIX? [was: Re: Test mail] Paul G. Allen
2001-07-31 21:04           ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-07-31 21:37             ` Alex Buell
2001-07-31 23:45             ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-01  7:50           ` christophe barbé
2001-08-01 14:21           ` D. R. Holsbeck
2001-07-31 21:07         ` Thomas Duffy
2001-07-31 21:54           ` James Simmons
2001-07-31 12:53     ` Test mail Alexander V. Bilichenko

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