[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

Greg Folkert greg at gregfolkert.net
Wed Dec 12 13:25:58 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:13 -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:55:00PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2007 11:18 AM, Chase Bolen <chase.bolen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip broken text]
> 
> What was broken?  I was able to read his message in mutt via ssh just
> fine.
> 
> > Can we please stop defanging HTML emails?  Is there *anyone* on this
> > list whose client doesn't support multi-part emails?  Any text-mode
> > Linux client maintained within the last five to ten years should work.
> 
> I am not sure what 'defanging' means in this context (though I will
> google), but I am quite curious what mail clients are most common on
> this list.  Based on how text is quoted in some messages there are more
> Outlook users here than one would expect on a LUG list.

Look at the message source. You'll see "DEFANGED_div" and other such
stuff.

> BTW, are not all Linux mail clients text-based and GUI mail clients
> really just Windows apps ported?  ;-)

Well, I use Evolution and it plays just find. I guess its the only one
that can. And No Evolution wasn't ported from Windows.
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