[pchelpers] Re: Preview pane and the dangerous world of Microsoft and dishonest business people
- From: "tactilelady" <supergrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:48:56 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "George" <georgetcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:44 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Preview pane and the dangerous world of Microsoft
and dishonest business people
> Ekhart,
> I owe you an apology because I deliberately used your name the way you
don't
> like. I'm sorry. Could you do me a favor and lighten up on trying to tell
us
> what to do and belittling us if we don't do things your way?
>
> George
>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> +++
> My darkness inside is full of stars - and each one has a name.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:32 PM
> Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Preview pane and the dangerous world of Microsoft
> and dishonest business people
>
>
> > You only
> > thought you could stop OE from opening the first email in your inbox.
> > What he means with the following is in the background, virtually,
> > without the message "physically" i.e. visually opening in a new window
> >
> > It looks to me, Georgi, that you read quite a bit into what your "guru"
> > actually said.
>
> I'm pretty sure he would have phrased the whole thing differently if he
> didn't mean "open automatically, without the user noticing". If it were
> only a question of changing a stupid default setting, that would be an
> everyday routine situation for a Microsoft product, and then he wouldn't
> have reiterated the thing because it would have sounded bombastic
> considering that everybody would have known and seen this all the time:
> Listen to this again: Outlook Express automatically opens the first
> message that arrives in an empty Inbox.
>
> Maybe i'll send him an email to be sure what he meant and if this is
> *one* of the things that has perhaps been fixed in the meantime, as
> Scott was wondering.
>
> > But take heart and calm down my unnecessarily angry little
> > friend, in the grand scheme of things none of this is very important.
Now
> > what is important in the grand scheme is whether I steal time from my
> > employer even with important deadlines to be met, which I don't do. If I
> did
> > I really would be a poor helpless little idiot, don't you think?
>
> Don't worry, i'm not scared or too worked up and neither need to take
> heart or calm down, at least as far as the computer side of things is
> concerned. All i'm saying and detailing is that and how Microsoft is
> ripping its customers off, even with its "free" programs IE and OE.
>
> My comments about the Bush administration were only slightly off topic
> because it's interesting (as well as very dangerous) that the US
> government is run along the same technical, ethical, and business lines
> as Microsoft.
> And that, my big friend (how big are you?! i'm already almost 2 meters)
> *is* very important in the grand scheme of things; actually the apathy
> of about 70% of the US population is an even bigger problem -- even more
> so for the rest of the world. They can only watch the world being turned
> into a big mess instead of conflicts being resolved. If the majority of
> the US population doesn't even realize the insanity of executing
> children who have committed murder, there is little hope of them
> understanding that the way to reduce terrorism is not through war and
> violence.
>
>
> Ekhart
>
> (By the way, the "last name last" after my name in the email header
> means that Ekhart is my first name, but maybe you just didn't believe
> me? In fact, most names ending in -hard or -hart are first names and
> most names ending in -i are last names e.g. Pavarotti, Amati, Paganini,
> da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Stradivari)
>
>
> Regards, John Durham (list moderator)
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