[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: mencoder under Windows

[Diego Biurrun]

Sascha Sommer writes:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 17:07, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > Joey Parrish writes:
> > > Also, please don't top-post when you reply.
> > > How does that top-post Q & A go again?
> > >
> > > A: It ruins the normal order in which you read.
> > > Q: What's wrong with top-posting?
> > > A: Top-post.
> > > Q: What's the worst thing you can do on a mailing list?
> >
> > ROTFL.
> >
> > How come I'm not surprised that person is using Outlook Express as
> > mailer...  IMHO we should just ban OE from our mailing lists, this
> > would solve 99% of the HTML mail problem as well.
> 
> I disagree.
> IMHO we should leave the freedom to the people to decide what email
> client they want to use. Even if it is broken, closed source and if there are 
> better and "free" alternatives.
> MPlayer is in no way related to email processing so I'm of the opinion that it 
> is not our job to guide people here.
> However, I'm not against blocking HTML mails.

I don't want to limit people's choice of mail programs, but I don't
see why I would have to suffer the consequences of those choices ;-)

I drafted an inflammatory anti-OE rant for sending here some time ago,
I did not send it, so don't take this too seriously.  Broken mails and
OE are just one of my pet peeves.

> P.S. I thought a long time about rebooting to windows, just to reply with 
> outlook express...

:-)

Diego