Off Topic [Spambayes] Outlook Express configuration

[Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions]

2/20/2003 4:10:57 PM, "Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

>> >AFAIK, OE has no programmatic interfaces or hooks, none, nada, zilch.
>>
>> I concur.  Unbelievable.
>
>Not really.  MS give away Outlook Express.  Their commercial offering (they
>are a company, after all) is Outlook.   It is very basic business sense to
>differentiate these products.
>
>> At least the other mailers store
>> stuff somewhere
>> where you can parse it out and figure out how to configure
>> it...
>
>Obviously Outlook Express stores it *somewhere* (IIRC, .elm files in
>"Application Data") and obviously a number of other products have worked out
>how to parse the info.  Writing new info will be harder, hence we see almost
>no 3rd party products with this ability.
>
>Windows is Windows, and you wont find me apologizing for the areas in which
>it sucks.  On the other hand, you wont find me "apologizing" for the things
>it does well.  I am pretty confounded as to how this SpamBayes project could
>cast MS in anything other than a positive light - at least we could do it!
>I tend to roll my eyes at people who cast stones as MS for the good *and*
>the bad.
>
>> that's why we call it wind'ohs.
>
>Because it provides software sufficient to hook spambayes as God intended?
>(Yeah, they also provide one that isn't, but they do appear to be one of the
>very few that does).  Because my OS is absolutely rock-solid?  Because I
>have a debugger functional for large programs (ask the Mozilla guys)?
>Because I can plug my friend's digital cam in and have it "just work"
>without installing a single driver?  Maybe us "microshaft" apologists should
>start referring to "penguin shit" <1.0 wink>.

Ok, so I accept the drubbing I have coming.  If I can't take it, I shouldn't 
dish it out, right?  Like Darth Vader, u$ isn't *completely* evil... I 
certainly don't see them with spambayes tunnel vision, though.  I use their 
products because for the time being I don't have a choice.  When I do, their 
products will become much better because they won't be able to *assume* that 
I'll continue using their products.  I wait for that day, and work to hasten 
it.

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>> How about a sampling?  <2/3 wink>  - TimS
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>While I am feeling like not-a-morning-person <wink>, Tim, would it be
>possible for you to trim your posts?  Occasionally I see a one-line reply
>from you, but am never clear if you have any additional text - so I scroll
>lots of quoted text, just to find your SIG.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark.
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