On Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 9:48 PM, Ron K. Jeffries wrote:

It came to pass in early 2006
a great silence passed across
Laszlo Mail land.

beta users started drifting away,
marking the beginning of the end.

one report of Laszlo Mail’s spellchecker
eating part of a post went unanswered.

historians will one day figure
out what happened, and why.
Speculation that Oliver Steele
decided Laszlo on C#
or Python on Laszlo, or Laslzo on VBA
was the REAL future.

wild rumors flourished, such as Sarah Allen’s
sabbatical to have a second child, or to
rejoin Adobe nee Macromedia.

On Thu, Mar 2, 2006 at 9:41 AM, Bruce Cummins, Laszlo Mail QA lead, replied:

A great hush fell upon Laszlo land
That the users thought was silence
Not knowing that situation in hand
Was a clinic in software science

Blame the QA! developers cried
We want to show you new features
We need to thoroughly test QA replied
Can’t release with nasty creatures

So the build was deployed in house you see
To be used in real life
And found was a bug or two or three
But nothing that caused real strife

Confidence grew as bugs were slew
Warmth filled the Laszlo heart
Looking to the day when Ron would say
“It’s not spell check but it is a start”

…ok back to work…

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