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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:02:58 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?
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On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:26:42 +0100
Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:

> Michael Mol writes:
> 
> > If you're already building KDE, KMail was decent.
> 
> Yes. It was.
> 
> 	Wonko
> 

How true.

kmail jumped the shark at 4.3, jumped the couch at 4.4 and everything
since has been a descent into madness.

A classic case of what not to do and "second project syndrome".
I'll bet CS profs will be using it soon as a example case of how
projects can lose focus and die.

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com