Thunderbird Address Book feature next to useless

Kurt Wall kwall
Sat Oct 30 21:56:38 PDT 2004


On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:04:20PM -0400, burns took 22 lines to write:
> On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 10:33, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On 10/30/2004 05:33 AM, David Bandel wrote:
> > > sigs should be no more than 4 lines long.  And only the truly clueless
> > > put those absurd, humorless, and completely useless 60+ line legal
> > > stupidity on messages.
> > 
> > Those are usually forced upon employees by their employer's legal 
> > departments.  Most people don't use them because they think they're a 
> > good idea.
> 
> In our case, they are automatically appended to our emails at work - the
> user has no control. They were instituted at the insistence of the legal
> department.
> <start legal_rant>

!@#$%^&* lawyers. No one liked 'em in Jesus' day; no one liked 'em in
Shakespeare's day ("first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"); no one
likes 'em today. At least with a prostitute, you get some pleasure out of
the arrangement.

Kurt
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Fruit flies like a banana


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