Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related
On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 10:37 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 11/30/13, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 29 November 2013 13:43:42 AP wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> > With KMail, Evolution or any other MUA you can read all mails
> >> > off-line. IMAP/POP does download the mails to your machine. You
> >> > can decide if you want to delete the mails from the gmail server
> >> > after downloading them or not. At the moment I try to switch away
> >> > from all GTK/GNOME related stuff if possible, so I'm testing
> >> > KMail. I still would recommend to use Evolution. However, read
> >> > the archive and you will see many posts from Lisi whining about
> >> > issues with mails posted to this list.
> >
> > I don't recall ever "whining" about anything which could be laid at
> > the door of KMail, let alone frequently.
>
> Hi Lisi, your fish-hook bite is delightful, but perhaps sub-optimal
> for your own emotional state; perhaps I can suggest something like the
> following for next time:
>
> "However, read the archive and you will see many posts from Ralph
> whining about issues irrelevant to the technical questions posted"
>
> or whatever :)
>
> The point is, at that point in the conversation, you can get away with
> just about anything. Ralph's bait can be seen as excellent training
> for you though, so some would consider that thanks would be in order
> :)
>
> >> > You won't experience that
> >> > much issues when using Evolution.
> >>
> >> Oh I see....Lisi has experience with all the mail clients I guess.
> >
> > Of course I haven't. And I have never made such a claim. It would be
> > a ridiculous one.
>
> And here, I can suggest something like the following:
>
> "Dear AP, unfortunately you have made an assumption here based on
> irrelevant non-technical innuendo from Ralph (see above). But I won't
> hold that against you. For now :)"
>
> Best regards to all, and may your life journey's be fruitful,
> Zenaan
:)
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