On 12/2/2010 1:53 PM Wild_Bill spake thus:

I'm another user that knows he can easily live without all of the latest
crap that's pumped out every day.

Thanks for that.

Now that I've got you on the line, can I make a request of you? Could
you please not top-post? If you look, you'll see that, like, 99.9% of
posters here bottom post.

Now, I know you're a wild guy and all and don't want to be tied down by
boring convention, but this is one that actually makes sense.

Anyhow, just a request.

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
.com...

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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