An entire office suite based on these sorts of conversations: Open Office.
Then his "Well I guess Bill Gates would know better than I" could quite literally turn into "Well, I guess there's a few thousand developers (and letter-writers like me) who disagree with me." Changes things a bit.
If he keeps on about the date on the email, send him one with a falsified send date (this is fairly simple to do with most non-standard email clients), like maybe from 1969 (some spammers send on this date, for some reason).
Yeah, got nothing. Just thought I'd make a quick comment as I share your pain... :)
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Date: 2006-02-10 03:57 pm (UTC)Then his "Well I guess Bill Gates would know better than I" could quite literally turn into "Well, I guess there's a few thousand developers (and letter-writers like me) who disagree with me." Changes things a bit.
If he keeps on about the date on the email, send him one with a falsified send date (this is fairly simple to do with most non-standard email clients), like maybe from 1969 (some spammers send on this date, for some reason).
Yeah, got nothing. Just thought I'd make a quick comment as I share your pain... :)