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>On Sep 28, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Beatrice Hopkinson wrote:
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>> I can't believe I am reading your response UNLESS you are
>> referring
>> to
>> the use to which some users need to put CE. As you know I've been
>> using
>> Claris OS9 on my OS X 10.4.11 and most of the time its fine. I do
>> worry
>> about
>> the enormous amount of folders and files I have on it and am trying to
>> think
>> of ways of diverting some of my material onto Gmail. but how to do
>> it.
>>
>> Are you really advocating abandoning CE????????????????
>
>
>I'm not telling anyone to leave CE. What I'm saying is, some people
>jump thru hoops to use CE when there are better email clients out
>there for their needs.
>
>I am also saying for anyone that can't run CE natively (anyone using
>an Intel iMac or OS 10.5), that they should really really take an
>honest look at moving on, because running CE in SheepShaver
>(currently the only option), makes for a very bad user experience.
Fortunately I don't use sheepShaver
>
>> P.S. I hate html's - they are practically unreadable visually to
>> me and
>> I always
>> suspect virus's despite assurances my Mac will handle them.
>
>Of course you hate HTML email, you are using an email client that
>can't render it. So you see a bunch of raw HTML code. Try using a
>modern email client that can render HTML and you will suddenly find
>all that unreadable junk goes away and you are left with anywhere
>from a regular email, thru nicely formatted, colored, etc, email.
So which ones do you recomment?
>
>As for viruses, there are, at current, exactly ZERO viruses in the
>wild for OS X. There is ONE trojan horse, but unless you routinely
>view porn from unknown web sites and are easily duped into manually
>downloading and running an installer under the guise it is a codec
>needed to view said porn, then you are in no danger of getting it.
Well now - when I had my crash in April I took my machine to an Apple
approved, experienced techie in Pasadena to get it up and running. He
said
it was necessary to do a clean re-instal and update of software. I've
noticed
several differences since then and taboot I lost files for most of 2007!
A few days ago I was cleaning out and dumping a lot of stuff because the
computer was slowing down and came across this file titled
PORN.installer. I had no idea what it was and when I checked on Google I
found it was pornography software. I did not of course open the file or
install it - and I'm waiting to hear from that techie exactly why it
ended up on my computer!
>In fact, running OS 9 in Classic on your OS X machine so you can use
>Emailer actually puts you at GREATER danger of getting a virus on
>your Mac. There ARE viruses for OS 9 and prior versions of the Mac
>OS. Although very few, not common to get, non transmittable directly
>by email, and none of any real danger since the OS 6 and earlier
>days. But the fact remains, if it is viruses you are worried about,
>stop running Classic, because OS 9 can get a virus. Get rid of
>Classic, and you are on only OS X, which is as of current, immune
>(except as noted above on the porn trojan horse).
Interesting. I have seriously thought about it - but it comes back
each time to the ease of flexibility and 'visualality' (if there is such
a word) of CE let alone my need to continually access old folders that I
continue to use it. I don't know how I would in any other system access
things, for example in my 'Sent' mail folder which now contains over
14,000 Emails - let alone the thousands in all my other files. For my
list mail I do start a new folder each year - but that cannot be done for
my other folders - as the material archived is interrelated.
As usual my thanks for your feedback.
Bea
>
>-chris
><www.mythtech.net>
>
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