Thank you for your comments mr. Cooper. I am PC stupid and was never able to send or receive E-Mail until I got my BRAILLENOTE. I was told when it was given to me, that it's use was enhanced when attached to a PC as a screen reader because it did not have the memory OR SPEED of a PC. However, the vendor explained that I could learn to send E-Mail, surf the net, and download books with it. I was elated. after a ten day vacation without downloading my E-Mail, I learned the hard way that hundreds of messages was really too much for it to handle and like Paul, I got stuck no longer being able to send, receive, or delete anything in E-mail. I let it receive 651 messages and it locked up. With a lot of help, I deleted my E-mail folder and (thank GOD) got it back. As a subscriber to this list, and still stupid with PCS, I get over a hundred messages each day on my lovely BRAILLENOTE, but I will never overtax it again, I check my mail at least three times a day, and I will never blame it for my mistakes. With it I too am now able to operate in the twenty-first century. Please remember subscribers and BRAILLENOTE owners, it is only a machine, and while it's the most powerful technology I've ever played with, compared to PCS with many billions of bytes of memory and astronomical operating speed, it's only a baby, just beginning to walk. This is not intended to put anyone down, just to remind you that we're dealing with machines that only do what we tell them, if they've been programmed to do that task; as frustrating as it may be sometimes. Sammie
>----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Contribute Braillenote <[email protected] >Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:40:00 +1200 >Subject: [Braillenote] email overload. >Hello Listers, How sorry I felt for the subscriber who, with several hundreds >of emails to download, experienced frustration at the lack of speed, and >trouble with getting them in on his Braillenote. Mind you, I couldn't help >thinking that if you have a large load to shift you don't bring your car, but >buy or hire a truck. Surely, this is a case of horses for courses. This is a >situation when the higher speed and capacity of a modern PC comes into its >own. Personally, I can't help but reflect that, until I got my Braillenote, I >could neither send or receive emails at all. now I am sending and receiving >them from all over the world and feel that I have got to know, if only >slightly, a great many people as a result. but then I am dealing with dozens, >not hundreds. I am not slow to criticize this marvellous device, >constructively I hope, but on this occasion I feel criticism is hardly >justified. Though nobody can surely deny that there are occasionally gliches >that affect the Braillenote, correct me if I'm wrong, (and surely someone will >if I am), but, judging from the comments of my friends, even high-powered PC's >have their off-moments). Don Cooper. >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
