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Borking Outlook Express
Johannes writes: "Swedish Gnuheter has a story on Nick Moffitt arranging with his X-headers in way that makes it impossible to read his email with Microsoft WebTV or Outlook Express. Moffitt states: 'The folks using Outlook Express have locked themselves into a
limited subset of the information that can flow over the Internet, and
are blaming me personally for not limiting my transmissions to that
outlook-centric subset.'
See also original email (in English). Immoral? Or just right?" Looks like Moffit's "Who, me?" attitude is tongue in cheek, but the creative header changes here are hilarious.
But not that profound. Does it rate to be an article? Or is it a subtle trick to drive up page hits by trolling for anti-microsoft flames?
Blar.
/. deliberately spells peoples' names incorrectly to annoy them.
Surely that's all right with you, since you do something similar to people who use software you have an irrational fear of?
What was our reaction to MS disabling access to the MSN sites?
I don't know about yours, bucko, but I couldn't give a damn. If MSN has anything interesting to say (unlikely), odds are that somebody else will be saying it.
And this is different exactly how?
Microsoft's move was part of an effort to coerce lock-in to a non-standards-compliant protocol. This locks out non-standards-compliant clients. Totally opposite.
This is immature and childish.
Not at all. It makes the point very clearly. If more people did it, more users would realize just how broken MS software is.
-- Alastair
Quote from email
Yes. It's true that I run a mailing list that does not allow posting from Windows users. Many people complain about this, but in my mind I see it as no different than a restaurant or dance hall having a dress code. It raises the bar for entry to the list, and ensures that users really want to be there.
So if you use Windows, you must be some diseased leper who isn't fit to lick the boots of Nick Moffitt. What a jerk. This is exactly the kind of person who turns people off to Linux, free software, etc.
When did we become such elitists?
This is Slashdot. Just about every post involves elitism, from the constant MS bashing, to the contempt towards the rest of the population for not subscribing to whatever extreme ideologies the posters do, to the reaction towards the most minor technical mistake with pages upon pages of scorn. Personally I find this amusing, though not out of extreme hatred of MS.
Oh boo fucking hoo. The guy made an amusing hack and ahlf the people around here start comparing him to hitler.
I guess you're going to boycott his mailing list and I am sure Mr. Moffitt is going to loose sleep over it.
And, one more point, the goal of our movement is to have fun messing around with computers. I don't know what "movement" you belong to, but when you stop taking yourself so seriously you should consider joining ours.
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
U R SO L4ME 4 UZING WINDOZE, LINUS RULEZZZZZ!!!
H4XORZ 4EVER!!!
HEHHEHEHHEHHHEEE.
Actually, they do. Thos who run the list also have the right to delete those posts, or ban the user.
In both cases (excluding windows users from your message, or excluding those who do exclude windows users) it comes down the the right of free association, which I think is a Good Thing.
Personally, I think what he is doing is kind of funny. I suspect even those who use OE get a chuckle out of his antics (except those who really need to lighten up).
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You know, you could fix the "word doc" problem by simply asking them to send it to you in plain text, or RTF, or whatever format you prefer. Word is able to export in any of those formats.
Further, I have to ask why you're complaining so much about receiving Word doc attachments if you have Star Office. It is able to import Word docs without too much difficulty. I can see no real reason why you would refuse to do this unless you were trying to prove a point.
Regardless of your reasoning for refusing said attachments, using MS-like tactics to fight MS makes you just as wrong as they are. Folks can justify it until they're blue in the face, but in the end you're simply punishing others for not thinking and working just like you. Just like MS does. This is not flamebait or troll, I'm just trying to show what it looks like from another perspective.
If you don't like MS products, don't use them. If you don't have a choice (i.e. where you work mandates it) then don't complain, as there are many, many others (myself included) who do not have a choice.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
those headers are indistinguishable from the proprietary Netscape.
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It's getting about time to leave everywhere