Nathan,
    Which POP3 server are you using?  I have some spare time, and I 
wouldn't mind putting together a patch for your POP server if it's one 
I've seen before.  I might even submit it back to the main project so 
others can benefit...

==Joseph++

Nathan England wrote:

>Craig,
>
>I appreciate the fast reply you gave. The tone didn't bother me. I understood 
>where you were coming from. I myself am not entirely pleased with the 
>situation I've been put into, but I need to come up with a solution anyway.
>I believe in the end I will be modifying a pop server to check mail elsewhere 
>once a user logs in, as was suggested (I think) by technomage...
>
>I respect the answers I get from people on this list, because we all have 
>experience in different backgrounds and different levels. 
>I've been using Linux for almost 13 years, sometimes I still feel like a 
>newbie. Sometimes I get stumped on something and I'm getting too technical 
>about it and a newbie will offer his noob advice, and it's just dumb.. But in 
>it's naiveness I realize I was going about something all wrong.
>
>I believe the community we share on this list does not solely depend on how 
>long or how much experience we've got, it's our different view points that 
>make it work. Which is why someone who might have no clue what is wrong, 
>might point out some obvious simple minute detail, that in our technical 
>level of thinking we over looked.
>
>Or in trying to come up with a quick solution, we may fail to realize the 
>overhead we may need to pursue something, or the security hazards...
>Kind of like me having the iron-power to do this.. lol
>It's not right, but I have the power and they want it...
>
>And about your harshness in answering my question, thank you. I have been at 
>this a long time. I'm not looking for a friendly noob answer, I want the 
>answer, short and sweet so I can get to work... I understand how you reply 
>depending on the persons needs. I appreciate that. It saves me time.
>
>I'm sorry I had to ask such a stupid question, and that brought the list into 
>this frenzy... But needless to say, I still have a problem, and whether I 
>like it or not, I have to deal with it. Until I can convince those above me 
>otherwise.
>
>nathan
>
>On Thursday 31 March 2005 19:30, Craig White wrote:
>  
>
>>It has been suggested on another thread that the tone of some of my
>>messages might 'be a bit kinder'
>>
>>I tend to give answers, when I can, suitable for the level of the person
>>asking the questions and thus the answers can be somewhat abrupt when I
>>expect that the person who asked the question can understand what I am
>>saying. Obviously an answer to a 'newbie' to Linux has to be done on an
>>entirely different manner, more attention to the exact details and
>>somewhat different in tone.
>>
>>Thus, when Nathan - a long time PLUG'er and long time and knowledgable
>>Linux user asks a question, my answers are going to be short, as
>>specific as necessary and include most of my concerns about why I am
>>thinking that it is likely to be a bad idea that he go down that path.
>>
>>When Mike Enriquez asked about how to make 3 different sound cards work,
>>I gave him a longer, more explained version of how I would handle it and
>>he went out and bought a new card anyway  ;-)  Surely my tone on that
>>exchange couldn't be questioned (or can it?) Needless to say, my advice
>>with that new card isn't going to change.
>>
>>I have now looked back on the messages that I have posted during the
>>month of March and the only thing that I think someone could have
>>possibly objected to was my desire not to have the list spammed with
>>GMail invite offers - if that was an effrontery on the successful
>>commerce on this list (or any other), please let me know.
>>
>>Craig
>>
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