On 12/1/2010 12:34 PM Jeff Liebermann spake thus:

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:37:38 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

So why do you get *something* while I get *nothing*? Null. Nada.
Zip. (Using an otherwise apparently well-working copy of Firefox
(3.6.8).)

You might want to double check the version again. Although Firefox is
almost up to date (3.6.12 is current), your Thunderbird, that you're
using to post messages, is far out of date:
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604)
Current is 3.1.6. You'll need to download a fresh copy as update
doesn't alway work between major version changes.

I have to say--and this is a little off-topic, I realize--that with all
due respect to your astute observations of my software revision levels,
I have no intention of upgrading my copy of Thunderbird. And this is
deliberate on my part.

Why? Because upgrading Firefox, my web browser, is one thing. If it
****s up, all I lose is, basically, nothing (I keep my bookmarks backed
up well enough). But if the Tbird install goes haywire, I stand to lose
a lot: my previous email messages, address book, not to mention
newsgroup stuff. Oh, I wouldn't actually *lose* it: I know where the
inboxes and such reside, and can save and restore them, but it's a PAIN
IN THE ASS that I wish to avoid.

I've had enough bad luck with this geek-produced software that I'm quite
gun shy about upgrading. And while there are plenty of annoying things
about Thunderbird (like why, on my machine with not a lot of RAM, it
exhibits the most ****-poor memory management I've seen of ANY
application EVER, resulting in occasional "naps" of up to a minute while
it scrambles to purge and reallocate memory), it's a case of better the
devil you know; I'm not interested in discovering all those NEW bugs
they've introduced after fixing the old ones.

So thanks, but no thanks.

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.


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