Re: [Pan-users] Someone hasn't upgraded in a while... (was Re: Ubuntu 11.10 version ...)

[Duncan]

Ron Johnson posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:31:08 -0500 as excerpted:

> On 10/21/2011 08:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719)
>>>
>>> That's *ancient*.
>>
>> If it's not broken, don't break it by updating.
>>
> That's only valid if subsequent versions are broken.

If he's running that old a Thunderbird, perhaps it's because he's running 
an old distro, and it'd be a lot more than Thunderbird to be upgraded, 
some of which /might/ be broken for his purposes...

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