<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Oct 24, 2014, at 2:44 AM, Axel Grude (Axel) <<a href="mailto:axel.grude@gmail.com" class="">axel.grude@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div id="smartTemplate4-quoteHeader" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On 24/10/2014 00:05, Jim wrote:</div><blockquote class=" cite" id="mid_CAF6z7pvyyj7matSp_C_dBqjU0BTxBsZHdU17LwhLGn4b1dKSmw_mail_gmail_com" cite="mid:CAF6z7pvyyj7matSp-C=dBqjU0BTxBsZHdU17LwhLGn4b1dKSmw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Axel Grude<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:axel.grude@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">axel.grude@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<blockquote id="Cite_2235239" class="gmail_quote cite" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote class=" cite" id="Cite_6640275" type="cite">A menuitem in the Help submenu could work, in addition to the Start page.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></blockquote></span>I would also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">propose a TOP LEVEL menu item</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>, for those who use the full menu, and or label in the caption area for those who don't.</div></div></blockquote><div class="">This sounds like a great way to get me to stop using Thunderbird entirely, to say nothing of contributing to the codebase. Don't pollute primary UI with pleas for money; it's obnoxious enough when Wikipedia does it, but at least they only do it during designated times of the year, and you can easily hide it.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">You can use gmail instead; don't forget to install Adblock.</span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Suggesting that our users (and one of our developers!) use gmail instead doesn’t seem like a great way to drive up Thunderbird usage, Axel…</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> Still, I would like an official poll on this, I would believe most of the users wouldn't care either way as it doesn't take away any real estate, and I haven't heard people complain about the "Go" menu item although probably very few use it.</span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>[snipped a bunch of out-of-place personal attacks…]</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">If you gave the hardliner "free as in beer" users an option to configure it away (without userChrome or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:config" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">about:config</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hacks) in order to retain the probably very low number of users that cared, would you then agree?</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I just want to remind everyone that reasonable people can have differing opinions on how we should raise money, and how pushy we should get while trying to do so. Please keep it civil and on-topic, and remember that we’re all on the same side here, if only so that I don’t have to write out annoyingly long messages explaining why I’ve rejected your posts. ;)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Blake.</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>