[Users] User has gone STUPID.

Colin Leroy-Mira colin at colino.net
Wed Feb 16 22:25:28 CET 2022


> Not saying that Chris's title was the best 
> possible title, but to me it
> 
> never looked like Chris was calling Claws 
> stupid.

Well, as another developer, I second Paul's feeling, and the subject's wording discouraged me from trying to help.

(Claws Mail does not lose mails. We always have put a special effort towards that.)

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Colin Leroy-Mira 

---- Brian Bates a écrit ----

>On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:14:51 -0000
>Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:29:02 -0600
>> "c. marlow" <claws at cwm030.com> wrote: 
>> 
>> > PS... I have NOT seen one person complain about the title.  
>> 
>> If that was the case, then you wouldn't be replying about it, would
>> you?
>> 
>> >  I could
>> > understand people being upset if it said " xxx is stupid", but it
>> > doesn't. The title is about a inanimate "object" / Application that
>> > doesn't ( and never will) have feelings.   
>> 
>> Basically, and this might be news to you, by saying Claws Mail is
>> stupid the implication is that the effort of the developers has
>> resulted in something stupid, and therefore it is not a great leap of
>> logic to feel that the implication is that the developers are being
>> called stupid. Pff, I don't even know why I am explaining this, it is
>> not hard to understand.
>Not saying that Chris's title was the best possible title, but to me it
>never looked like Chris was calling Claws stupid.
>
>I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest, that like most of us, Chris
>has a great deal of respect for the developers, and generally
>enjoys using Claws Mail? Otherwise he might have been on a different
>mailing list suggesting a different email client was acting up...
>
>> 
>> This turned out to be your own error, and not for the first time. If
>> you are not prepared to make the necessary effort required for
>> eliminating your own mistakes as the source of the problem, then
>> don't expect others to make the effort to read and answer your
>> queries either.
>To Chris's credit, when he discovered his error, he did own up and
>explain what happened.
>
>> 
>> with regards
>> 
>> Paul
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>
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>
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