Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:45:58 +0200
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 16:43, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > Judging by your mail address, you are in academia. This is doubly
> > > sad.
> >
> > My experience is that academic institutions are no different than
> > any other organization in these regards. For better or for worse.
>
> They are supposed to lead the way to the Light :)
>
> It's their job. Or something.
>
Sadly, no. It's not something new: back in the early 90s, Acorn was
trying to sell the Archimedes (British made, with a 32 bit ARM
processor) to schools and universities.
'No, no,' said the academics, 'the whole world uses Windows 3 so we
have to teach that.'
Of course, hindsight showed that when Windows 95 appeared a couple of
years later, it had a look and feel far more similar to RiscOs on the
Archimedes than it did to Win3, which was just a graphics shell bolted
onto single-user DOS. By the time most of these students left school and
university, Win3 had gone the way of the dodo.
A little further thought would have shown that students being taught
at that time (and ever since) would go on to spend their entire lives
adapting to newer and shinier IT systems and learning how to operate
new software every few years, so some diversity at an early age would
have been of more benefit than a monoculture.
--
Joe
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