Just one thing to say ...... not "plastic" ...... "reflector"

[Piper]

But Guru Raquel, this grasshopper asked the right questions and has spent
many hours asking them.

Time is money, eh?

When I go to the garage and explain my motoring problem, I always get an
answer. It may cost a lot of money but I ALWAYS get an answer. Where is my
answer?

Maybe the puter garage can only deal with one problem at a time. I presented
TWO. Is that mentally too taxing for gurus who deal in binary language?
Not all deserved to graduate from monism school to dualism school. Whoa ....
what if there is more than TWO numbers in the cosmos? "Does not compute, 
does not
compute .........."

Guru _________ stated that "thousands" of lines of code would be required to
solve those two great cosmological yet technical problems which I presented.
One cosmo-technological step at a time.


******
Ergo, how many lines of code will it take to upgrade Evolution so that it
will carry a reflector expression in the subject line? eg anyone replying to
the ABC list in our address book might send a message with ABC between <> or 
** or $$ in the
subject line and as a result all in my Evolution address book will get the
response?
******

How much is that worth? Since one of our puters is a mini-pc with Linux I 
can send it anywhere
on the planet by postal mail. Make me an offer I can't refuse.

Let us say I pay for code, line by line (vs. "pray" for code as in "icon" a 
common English religious word usurped by pretentious technopriests).

What are the bids?

You know the old song:

"I've got the money, honey;
have you got the time ....."

Piper
The Grasshopper



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raquel" <raquel at thericehouse.net>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: "List Server" to Layman and Computer Expert


> On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:54:34 -0700
> "Piper" <pay_the_piper at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Preston Hagar" <prestonh at gmail.com>
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: Upgrading Evolution/Express/Mac-equivalent
>>
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Piper<pay_the_piper at shaw.ca>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Why wouldn't Evolution or Express be improved or upgraded? And
>> >> what does the
>> >> Mac OS call its emailer?
>> >>
>> >> So these are three email servers allowed by Shaw and other ISPs.
>> >>
>> >> If they are improved Shaw won't allow them? Is that political?
>> >
>> >
>> > Evolution and Outlook Express are _not_ email servers.  They are
>> > MUAs or "Mail Clients".  This diagram may help:
>> >
>> > http://support.kavi.com/khelp/kmlm/user_help/html/how_email_works.html
>>
>> Thanks for the diagram.
>>
>> What we seem to have here is a communication/definitional problem.
>> If I go to my garage with a problem, I express it in layman's
>> terms. I may not use words like motor and engine the same way as
>> people in auto engineering and I may describe a motor/engine sound
>> like "knocking" which the engineer recognizes in different terms.
>>
>
> Ahhhh.  But calling the steering wheel a tire will get you no where.
> Ask the right questions and you'll get the right answers.
>
> -- 
> Raquel
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