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Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-be-to-the-gods-for-that dept.

Petr Krcmar writes "Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 was released last month. A few months before, two main developers left the project and development was moved from the Mozilla Corporation to the Mozilla Messaging, the new subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. We had the opportunity to ask some questions to David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging CEO. The interview is about present and future of Thunderbird and about related projects like SeaMonkey, Spicebird and Mozilla Calendar."

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  1. Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Banks don't send email, the phishers aren't copying HTML from anybody. What makes phishing possible, isn't HTML, and it isn't crooks. It's the people who fall for it.

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    Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
  2. Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature by TheSunborn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And just let me be the devils advocate.

    I really think that you should only send carrige return in your mail if you want to start a new paragraph. Sending an entire paragraph as a single line is good, because then my mail program, can wrap the lines acording to my window size.

    Sending mails with a specific line width sucks if my display is smaller or wider then what the sender think is the right linesize. What If I am on a mobile device which can only show 60 chars on a line. If you email have a newline after 80 chars, it will not look good.

    And similary, my current mail program can show 200 chars on a single line, so why leave more then half the window empty, just because you want to wrap lines on an arbitrary position which have not really been a limit since we started using graphics display.

  3. Re:As well they shoouldn't by Imsdal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate having to figure out who said what in which e-mail when I'm at work (using Outlook).

    Whatever happened to quoting and proper mail etiquette, anyway? When I started using message boards in the early '80s, almost everyone quickly learned to quote properly, to cut out the unnecessary stuff and so on. Now it seems to be a completely lost art. I have had people at work ask me, in all seriousness, why I didn't top post and what those strange ">" characters meant.

    I agree that threading is important now, but it is (IMNSHO) a technological solution to a social problem. I find hat unfortunate.