A lament.
Why do I love thee? As with the rest of KDE, you look beautiful. I adore your two-line message list. I enthuse over your vast configurability. I revel in your KDE integration. I rejoice at your proper display of threading.
Why do I loathe thee? Your stubborn refusal to turn your calendar past 1995. The rest of the world long ago abandoned 80 column ASCII text: witness your own beautiful graphical desktop as only one of a plethora of obvious elements of evidence. But why, oh why, does your message composer resist all efforts to be dragged into the present? Since adopting you as my shepherd and steward of all that is IMAP and SMTP, Every.Single.Person with whom I correspond has complained vociferously about my "mangled replies" and "broken links."
Have you ever actually evaluated the HTML you create? It's really quite bad. I suggest some remedial lessons at the W3 school. And what have you done to the MIME formatting that seems to force many of my recipients' user agents to ignore HTML parts completely? Have you no H(T)eart?
So it is with somber sadness yet demonstrated demand that I summon Thunderbird onto my SSD as your reluctant replacement. Oh yes, there's plenty about Gecko to grouse about. Yet only this stormy raptor of an emailer can accomplish the most important task in which I engage: namely, creating content that appears as expected by my peers who rejected the Hollerith card as suggested formatting style.
Off you go, from my favorites, alas. But I'll let you linger, at least a little bit longer, for who really knows how you might grow when the date clicks over to 4.8? Please, I plead, give me an apt-get update that fixes the one thing that, I'm sorry, but just sucks ass.
Why do I love thee? As with the rest of KDE, you look beautiful. I adore your two-line message list. I enthuse over your vast configurability. I revel in your KDE integration. I rejoice at your proper display of threading.
Why do I loathe thee? Your stubborn refusal to turn your calendar past 1995. The rest of the world long ago abandoned 80 column ASCII text: witness your own beautiful graphical desktop as only one of a plethora of obvious elements of evidence. But why, oh why, does your message composer resist all efforts to be dragged into the present? Since adopting you as my shepherd and steward of all that is IMAP and SMTP, Every.Single.Person with whom I correspond has complained vociferously about my "mangled replies" and "broken links."
Have you ever actually evaluated the HTML you create? It's really quite bad. I suggest some remedial lessons at the W3 school. And what have you done to the MIME formatting that seems to force many of my recipients' user agents to ignore HTML parts completely? Have you no H(T)eart?
So it is with somber sadness yet demonstrated demand that I summon Thunderbird onto my SSD as your reluctant replacement. Oh yes, there's plenty about Gecko to grouse about. Yet only this stormy raptor of an emailer can accomplish the most important task in which I engage: namely, creating content that appears as expected by my peers who rejected the Hollerith card as suggested formatting style.
Off you go, from my favorites, alas. But I'll let you linger, at least a little bit longer, for who really knows how you might grow when the date clicks over to 4.8? Please, I plead, give me an apt-get update that fixes the one thing that, I'm sorry, but just sucks ass.
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