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   Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:39:14 +0000   
   From: Bernard Peek    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike   
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   In message <87bqj8ftsy.fsf@geemail.com>, Hadron    
    writes   
      
      
   >> TP seems quite intuitive to me, and I've used it for small business   
   >> networks where most of the users were quite inexperienced computer   
   >> users. For my own purposes I'm reasonably happy to spend some time   
   >> configuring a program. But email is a business-critical service so I   
   >> want any program that handles my mail to be bombproof and   
   >> idiot-proof. Programs with large numbers of obscure and rarely used   
   >> optional settings are not, IMHO, a good idea.   
   >   
   >If an email client which doesn't really offer that much over other types   
   >is so important I think you will probably find Linux too flexible for   
   >your limited needs. Stick with Windows and Turnpike - you make a great   
   >couple :-;   
      
   I'm still using TP and Windows because the combination offers me more    
   than any Linux system that I've yet tried. Claws is the next one I'll    
   try. Finding a program that's as useful as TP and is also robust enough    
   to be used for business use is a separate task. I'm happy to use a    
   program that has enough options to be flexible, but while that's a plus    
   point for a system for me it's a disadvantage if I want a mail system to    
   hand over to completely naive users - unless I can be certain that the    
   users can't screw things up too badly by fiddling with things. So that's    
   another feature of my ideal system, a fine-grained permissions system.   
      
   What I want is a program that I can lock down tight for the klutz,    
   leaving them unable to break anything. I want to be able to    
   progressively allow more privileges to users who are capable of using    
   them and have the need. Ideally I'd want the more risky options    
   completely hidden from people who I can't trust. That's because    
   sometimes it's the PHB who is the klutz.   
      
   Oh yes, another advantage of TP. It has its own HTML renderer which    
   cannot execute scripts and will not activate web-bugs. It doesn't    
   download images.   
      
      
      
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   Bernard Peek   
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