Armadillo について

Hello fellow Mozilla supporters. My name is Michael and some of you may remember mgordon2 as a contributor in past years. I have been with Mozilla since the days of Netscape Communicator 4.01.

Sadly, in the interim period between the disintegration of the Netscape Communicator concept and the formation of ThunderBird and FireFox, I left the support community for reasons known only to me.

In the beginning we had a wonderful application suite for electronic communications, we could develop attractive mail messages, or keep them simple text. Today we have a good hard working web browser, and a decent E-Mail client, but they act like standalone applications. SeaMonkey tried to keep the overall communications concept going, but alas due to programing changes has fallen by the wayside.

Somehow Microsoft has been able to keep Outlook alive and relatively well, it now performs many of the tasks Netscape performed in years past. So, what keeps us from Outlook? internet security issues.

For myself and computing history. I began using an old Commodore 64 keyboard connected to a small B&W TV in the mid 1070s, I worked for the Civilian Service of the Department of the Army and in early 1980s became an interracial member of an elite group of network computer users known as ARPANET. This group was composed of UNIX users from across the country at universities and major military installations, connected together by specialized copper telephone wires.

The primary purpose of sixths group of unique users was in developing a system of user networking across the nation. We succeeded, that network morphed into the Internet of today. One of the big assets to come from this communications we the availability of other highly technical individuals who could provide live, real-time support in overcoming programming difficulties.

I am no longer a programmer by trade, if I can provide support I will be happy to assist, otherwise I will remain quiet.

Forgive me if I rambled a bit, there is still a ton of history to cover.