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On 08/09/2010 09:56 PM, Unicorn.Consulting wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C60DC16.8010407@gmail.com" type="cite"> On
10/08/2010 6:07 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
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If the Mozilla devs *all* truly feel this way, then they should
simply
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remove NNTP functionality from TB completely - in which case I'd
be
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*really* pissed... ;)
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And I for one would be gone. It is the NNTP functionality that has
me as a Thunderbird user. Outlook does the job nicely for mail.
NNTP is the winning edge that Thunderbird supplies to me and has
me overlook the HTML limitations and foibles of the mail client.
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Apologies for singling this message out, but I do not feel this is a
useful contribution to the intended purpose of this mailing list.
Such a message is better suited to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/products/mozilla_thunderbird">http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/products/mozilla_thunderbird</a>,
or more traditionally, the mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
list/newsgroup.<br>
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I think we should be moderating out all messages of the form "If
Thunderbird drops feature X, I'm switching to Y" because they do not
actually help move us forward; at best, I think they have the chance
to start a small "me too" subthread of complaints or a minor flame
war. I think everyone involved with Thunderbird understands that
for every feature Thunderbird has that there is a group of users who
use that feature and will be upset if the feature is changed or
removed. I understand it to be a non-goal of this mailing list to
provide a voice to every one of those users to make their number and
favorite features known.<br>
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We do care what features people use and how they use them, but that
is why we are trying to move forward with Test Pilot (
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<a href="https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/">https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/</a>
) for Thunderbird. So we can have detailed and machine-tallied
usage statistics without use our planning channels as a
statistically invalid impromptu survey.<br>
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If anyone has any questions about the goals and rules of this
mailing list, please see here:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning</a><br>
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Andrew<br>
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