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On 17 Mar 2025 at 12:08:54 GMT, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:19:05 +0000, Graeme Wall
> <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 17/03/2025 10:44, John wrote:
>>> On 16 Mar 2025 19:30:59 GMT, TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Just wondering if anyone is using/has used MailMate? I'm a few days into the 2
>>>> week trial, and rather liking it, though config isn't entirely
>>>> straightforward; e.g. I haven't managed to bludgeon key bindings into
>>>> submission yet.
>>> 
>>>   I had a little lookie. Nope, not for me. Too expensive, the really
>>> positive reviews don't seem real and the first review I could find
>>> that looked like it might be interesting is jailed behind an
>>> account-wall. If your opinion is so damned important that you have to
>>> wrap a demand for me to make an account to read it then you are
>>> obviously far too important to be read by a lower life-form like me.
>>> 
>>>   Yerp, I realise that the reviewer isn't relevant to the quality or
>>> otherwise of MaiMate but it's still annoying.
>>> 
>>>   But why was I bothering? No one ever emails me. :)
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> (I'm in one of my semi-regular 'omg Apple's going down the pan' moods, which
>>>> is probably what prompted this.)
>>> 
>>>   Okay. Here, have a nice hug: {{{HUG}}}.
>>> 
>>>   Slightly better, now? Fine, so what the fuck makes you think Apple
>>> are enshitifying themselves any more today than at any other time in
>>> the previous ten or more years? What *specifically* are they now doing
>>> wrong or wrongly?
>>> 
>>>   Or is it just one of those feelings of named dread (so much better
>>> than nameless dread which can infect *anything*) that creeps up on
>>> humans every so often like the smell of semolina in a school lunch
>>> room or the endlessly repeated encounters with row after row of
>>> ready-made sandwiches dripping with mayo?
>>> 
>>>   I wonder, do cats suffer from dread, named or otherwise?
>>> 
>>>   Off-topic, right?
>>> 
>>>                                                            J.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Is it possible for cats to be off-topic on the internet?
> 
>  Ask a cat.
> 
>  No, on second thoughts, perhaps that is not a wise suggestion. Cats
> are well-known for being self-centred, egotistical, evil little demons
> who remember being worshipped as gods.

Just like someone whose name I won't mention?

> They are also deliberately cute.

He's definitely not cute!

-- 
Cheers, Alan

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MailMate TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-03-16 19:30 +0000
  Re: MailMate John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-03-17 10:44 +0000
    Re: MailMate Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2025-03-17 11:19 +0000
      Re: MailMate John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-03-17 12:08 +0000
        Re: MailMate Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-17 12:37 +0000
  Re: MailMate Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> - 2025-03-18 15:28 +0000
    Re: MailMate Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-03-18 16:52 +0100
      Re: MailMate David <David.is@home.today> - 2025-03-18 16:18 +0000
      Re: MailMate TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-03-18 17:15 +0000
        Re: MailMate Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-03-18 18:25 +0100
    Re: MailMate RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-03-18 15:57 +0000
      Re: MailMate TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-03-18 16:47 +0000
      Re: MailMate Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2025-03-19 07:16 +0000
        Re: MailMate RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-03-19 17:25 +0000
          Re: MailMate Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-03-19 18:38 +0100
    Re: MailMate TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-03-18 16:52 +0000
      Re: MailMate Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2025-04-16 17:09 +0000
        Re: MailMate TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-04-16 22:06 +0000
          Re: MailMate snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-04-17 00:40 +0100

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