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Re: Linux Mail Client



%% Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> writes:

  sl> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:13:42AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
  sl> *sigh* We must be having a serious problem somewhere.  I just
  sl> checked for the third time since last night.  First project in
  sl> Email Clients is not acmemail (email) nor ALM (who knows where
  sl> that came from).  It is AIMS Prototype.
 
  >> If you'd quit trying to be so damn coy and just give the name, it would
  >> be a lot easier on everyone.  I'm not interested in groveling through
  >> the software map to 4 levels down to find it; that ain't my idea of fun.

  sl> Well, gee, if you'd open your eyes and READ..  I DID GIVE THE
  sl> NAME!  In fact, I gave it well before describing where it was but

I searched the debian-user archive on the web site for the last 6 months
and found no hits for "AIMS".

I looked back through the articles in the References in this message all
the way back to the beginning (or as far as my local archive of this
list goes, about 4 days), and there are no references to AIMS (except
for the one above).

I did a grep on my local mail archive of debian-users and I found one
message by you mentioning the name, not three, on another sub-thread,
which arrived _after_ I sent my initial message.

And, your talk about "first one on the list" clearly predates your first
mention of the name; you only mentioned it in a followup to someone else
who couldn't find it.  Your first reference to the project is here:

 > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote:
 >> So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone.
 >
 > Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first
 > one /is/.

_Then_ you gave the name in a followup to this message.

  sl> Clearly that is not the case since you couldn't follow simple
  sl> directions which takes all of 10 seconds to do

Perhaps 10 seconds _if_ you're familiar with SourceForge and it's
structure.  You have to correctly navigate 4 layers of link-filled pages
before you get to the right spot, and your oh-so-useful directions of
"go look on sourceforge in the email clients" doesn't provide much
direction for the uninitiated.

  sl> nor could you be bothered to read for the name which has been
  sl> given no less than three times now!

See above.

The description of the project looks cool.  I'll be interested to see it
when there's something working.

  sl> What more do you want?  Pamela Anderson there to coo in your ear,
  sl> rubbing herself against you while moving the mouse for you to the
  sl> right links?

Sure, that'd be great.  Or, you could quit being so damn coy and give the
name in the first place, then I could type it into the search box on the
homepage at SourceForge and find it very easily.

Come to think of it, I like the Pamela idea better though.

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