On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100 > > > > > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to > > >> remember Reply to ALL... > > > > > > 'Reply to list' would be better. There was just recently a thread > > > about Icedove/Thundebird extensions to achieve that. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Andrei > > > > Thanks, I'll check the archives because I searched for it on mozilla > > and couldn't find it. > > > > To be honest I would prefer switching to Kmail because it integrates > > much better to KDE, and it is a good client, but I can't do that > > because my mail has to be accessible from Windows, that my wife > > insists that I keep on this PC. > > > > She gets mail too, and says that she has to have windows for her > > school. I told her about Crossover Office, but she says "Why should > > we buy something so I we can run MS Office on Linux when it runs fine > > under Windows". Maybe I'll play with wine and get her apps working. > > I have yet to spend the time. She says OpenOffice isn't good enough, > > because it can't read the .doc files reliably (thanks to the > > proprietary nature of the .doc files). > Where/how is the mail stored? maybe kmail can be configured to work with whatever option you want ... > If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should she buy > office when she can use OpenOffice for free and it will read and write > all MS Office files? > You did read the line above that she says that openoffice isn't good enough for here? Personally I am a bigger fan of openoffice but it does have problems with properly formatting word documents. Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans. > Why pay for Microsoft when there's a FOSS program that is not going to > be an infection vector for viruses? > > Hal > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
