My copy of Mozilla is so good when you search 'bob' it found 'a cartoony "social interface" to make Windows appear friendlier to the pathologically computer phobic' as a match.
Spam controls in the Mozilla 1.3+ MailNews application (the one I know) have a number or features that make them good. 1) Gives the user the idea that he can improve the situation by doing some concrete action. Controlling future spams is not upon some guru releasing a better filter or him hacking some better rules. 2) By definition, works better and better the more spam you get (and mark it as spam). Even poor tools will eventually detect spam since it's obvious to anyone reading spam, that those messages tend to repeat and to be similar. 3) It's automagically customized to your own spam. If you live in Germany, Sweden, Argentina or Namibia you will catch easily any spam that is in English, and you will build up rules for the local spam that arrives in your language. 4) In the case or Mozilla's MailNews, it's so easy to use, intuitive and straighforward, any user will use it. 5) Makes you feel spams are useful for something: detecting future spams.
I think those advantages are far more important that the rate of effetivity.
The reality is that US gov subcontracted the comunist fight in latin american countries where there already was a reactionary and fascist group willing to "eliminate" comunists/socialists/students/nuns/anybody in the address book of a suspect, etc. In Argentina since Perón arrived those groups within and without the military forces existed, and took training in the School of the Americas (a CIA project) but also in France (they know many things about torture thanks to their action in Argelia).
So the 30,000 dissapeared in Argentina are part of the cold war, and the US had a lot of interest in the outcome of that struggle.
Moz 1.0 crashed some times. Some betas I used, too. since 1.2.1 and now with 1.3 I never even have to restart it to fix any malfunction. I have mozmail open from 9 to 19:00, looking for mails every 10 minutes, I open and close the browser many times a day, use tabs, load local and remote pages with flash, java applets, and anything I find on my way. I don't use any strange additions. It never crashes. Maybe you have that cool plugin you got to make mozilla spin and turn and the version is pre alpha 0.001. Keep that in mind.
I'm a teacher's assistant in a Computer Science cource at college, we teach the web, HTML, JS, PHP, use apache, MySQL. Student's allmost allways use IE and OE cause it came with windows. I show them Mozilla and/or Netscape 7.x and some of them (the ones that care and pass the tests) learn why it's better. I also teach them standars vs propietary and show them the W3C way... I also allowed my brother reading e-mails in my computer thanks to the profile support in mozilla, and converted 1 friend at work (used Eudora before).
In Argentina the copyright law doesn't even allow making copies for personal use of anything.
You cannot make a tape from a CD you bought so you can listen to it in the car.
The industry doesn't care about that kind of copies, but they are illegal.
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Bill is setting up the mood for the industry to beg for palladium and DRM...
My copy of Mozilla is so good when you search 'bob' it found 'a cartoony "social interface" to make Windows appear friendlier to the pathologically computer phobic' as a match.
It's true! That's why it's so important to switch to OO so it doesn't become the only tool people know.
Spam controls in the Mozilla 1.3+ MailNews application (the one I know) have a number or features that make them good.
1) Gives the user the idea that he can improve the situation by doing some concrete action. Controlling future spams is not upon some guru releasing a better filter or him hacking some better rules.
2) By definition, works better and better the more spam you get (and mark it as spam). Even poor tools will eventually detect spam since it's obvious to anyone reading spam, that those messages tend to repeat and to be similar.
3) It's automagically customized to your own spam. If you live in Germany, Sweden, Argentina or Namibia you will catch easily any spam that is in English, and you will build up rules for the local spam that arrives in your language.
4) In the case or Mozilla's MailNews, it's so easy to use, intuitive and straighforward, any user will use it.
5) Makes you feel spams are useful for something: detecting future spams.
I think those advantages are far more important that the rate of effetivity.
Another reason to oppose US's "war on terror", which is just a war on every country not doing business with the US companies.
The reality is that US gov subcontracted the comunist fight in latin american countries where there already was a reactionary and fascist group willing to "eliminate" comunists/socialists/students/nuns/anybody in the address book of a suspect, etc.
In Argentina since Perón arrived those groups within and without the military forces existed, and took training in the School of the Americas (a CIA project) but also in France (they know many things about torture thanks to their action in Argelia).
So the 30,000 dissapeared in Argentina are part of the cold war, and the US had a lot of interest in the outcome of that struggle.
Moz 1.0 crashed some times. Some betas I used, too.
since 1.2.1 and now with 1.3 I never even have to restart it to fix any malfunction.
I have mozmail open from 9 to 19:00, looking for mails every 10 minutes, I open and close the browser many times a day, use tabs, load local and remote pages with flash, java applets, and anything I find on my way.
I don't use any strange additions.
It never crashes. Maybe you have that cool plugin you got to make mozilla spin and turn and the version is pre alpha 0.001. Keep that in mind.
I'm a teacher's assistant in a Computer Science cource at college, we teach the web, HTML, JS, PHP, use apache, MySQL. Student's allmost allways use IE and OE cause it came with windows.
I show them Mozilla and/or Netscape 7.x and some of them (the ones that care and pass the tests) learn why it's better. I also teach them standars vs propietary and show them the W3C way...
I also allowed my brother reading e-mails in my computer thanks to the profile support in mozilla, and converted 1 friend at work (used Eudora before).
In Argentina the copyright law doesn't even allow making copies for personal use of anything.
You cannot make a tape from a CD you bought so you can listen to it in the car.
The industry doesn't care about that kind of copies, but they are illegal.
Just FYI.