[Leica] OT mail program help please - Phil's wrong answer

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

uh...ohhhh


:-)



Steve


On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Philippe Amard wrote:

> Is yours a male or a female computador ? (cf. foot note)
> Phil...x
>
> A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish,  
> unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
> "House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa." "Pencil," however, is  
> masculine: "el lapiz."
> A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"
> Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two  
> groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves
> whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
>
> Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
>
> The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the  
> feminine gender ("la ordenadora"), because:
>
> 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
> 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers  
> is incomprehensible to everyone else;
> 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for  
> possible later retrieval; and
> 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself  
> spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
>
> The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be  
> Masculine ("el ordenador"), because:
>
> 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
> 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
> 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time  
> they ARE the problem; and
> 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a
> little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
>
> The women won... (but only because it is "el ordenador" in Spanish)
>
>
>
> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>>>> sorry LUG, I'm posting  OT, as follows,   but I need some advice   
>>>> re... an e-mail program...
>>>
>>
>>>> I have been using Mail.app in OSX (now Leopard) for a long   
>>>> time....I have many thousands of stored e-mail messages...
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for a new mail program...that will be ideal for me.
>>>>
>>>> To be ideal, it must have the following key features...
>>>>
>>>> 1.mature and robust
>>>> 2.OSX/mail.app compatible
>>>> 3.able to import mail.app messages
>>>> 4.opens and stores mail.app Mbox messages
>>>> 5.that will store mail as searchable messages, not in mbox format
>>>> 6.easily searchable
>>>> 7.allows easy removal of duplicate messages
>>>> 8.compatible with address book
>>>> 9.spamsieve compatible
>>>>
>>>> Does such a program exist?
>>>>
>>>> If so,  what program best fills the bill?
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your advice,
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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