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I'm opposed to that too, but I immediately ignore arguements made by people who can't make them without swearing.
What about those who choose to swear? Also, your stance might be unfortunate if someone ever shouts at you, "Fuck me, there's a tiger, run!"
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> Want less spam? Don't distribute your address or sign-up everywhere. Around 1999 or so I noticed someone trying to send spam to every common name on my mail server. I had never given out my email address and yet here I was getting spam just because I had a server. Even if I heavily obfuscate my email address on my website such as with this hack http://icefox.github.com/js_email_link_hack/ I would still get spam bec…
Something like fail2ban could deal with this.
I'd like tools that make it not matter so much how I got a message from somebody. It could be an SMTP message or an SMS (or MMS) message or an XMPP message or a message through somebody's privately owned social network. Just put a little logo up in the corner so I have some sense of just what kind of message it was. Other than that, I want all those messages brought together in one place that I control and can get to from any device.
"Email is a distributed, asynchronous messaging protocol." What a complete disconnect from the users of email. To 99.99% of people who use email, Paul is correct: "Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it." When people say "email", they almost always mean their email client. Failure to account for the common usage of the word and…
Looking at the ten most recent messages in my inbox, I have a political call to action, two invitations to apply for jobs, two newsletters from companies about their services, two informational newsletters, an invitation to a meetup, an account statement and a request from a friend to host a website on my server. Half of these are not to-do items in a sense other than "please read this text". They don't even want a r…
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Looking at the ten most recent messages in my inbox, I have a political call to action, two invitations to apply for jobs, two newsletters from companies about their services, two informational newsletters, an invitation to a meetup, an account statement and a request from a friend to host a website on my server. Half of these are not to-do items in a sense other than "please read this text". They don't even want a r…
Filters that can automatically file an email from a particular sender in a folder and mark it as "read" (so it doesn't give you a new mail notification) are something that's already been implemented. For example, both Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook support it.
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Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. It amused me and made the post more entertaining for me to read, thus holding my attention better. Yes, I probably do have the sense of humor of a 12-year-old, but that's immaterial.
vulgarity can definitely be artful. this was not a case of it.
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What about those who choose to swear? Also, your stance might be unfortunate if someone ever shouts at you, "Fuck me, there's a tiger, run!"
I'm not saying swearing doesn't have its place. However, it is not in a professional arguement.
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I'm not saying swearing doesn't have its place. However, it is not in a professional arguement.
Not usually a spelling nazi, but if you are telling people what words they are allowed to use professionally, could you also spellcheck the words you choose to employ. There are less of them, so it should be easier.
To me email IS broken. But email is not broken because it's not a todo list (I agree with the author that this is a layer above the protocol to fix). To me email is broken because: 1. a discussion is not a discussion but is a series of messages that happen to have the same subject. The client trying to simulate a discussion is not enough. 2. a message carries all the previous discussion: top posting (or any other way…
1. Email clients do add headers that define a thread, it's not just a series of messages with the same subject. Specifically, they use the In-reply-to and References headers to identify the parent and thread correctly. Gmail uses a different model, but many MUAs shows threads as trees, just like e.g. HN.