Michael W. Wellman wrote:
> The vast majority of the people who pay for your software don't care about
> the news client.
Agreed.
> The incremental revenue associated with a news client is nearly zero. The
> incremental cost is not. This means that the margin of return for investing
> time, energy, and resources in a news client is nearly zero.
> And every bit of time, energy, and resources that goes into the news client
> doesn't go into something else...that almost certainly has a higher
> potential rate of returned.
Also agreed.
But I'm not proposing throwing MORE engineering effort at the newsreader,
the spirit of my post was bemoaning the fact that the newsreader's
functionality was needlessly diminished.
I wrote that Entourage's (and OE 5's) inability to sort newsgroups by thread
_and_ date was "absurd, considering that Outlook 4.5 did the job just fine.
I can understand avoiding adding this functionality if it is not a priority,
but why REMOVE it? Why not just remove the newsreader entirely, instead of
just making it less useful than before?"
If anything, it took engineering time and effort to REMOVE the
functionality, rather than maintaining the status quo.
> So anyway...I wouldn't be too cavalier about "Why not just remove the
> newsreader entirely"...
Perhaps I am overreacting. My suggestion to scrap the newsreader was more of
an exaggeration to make my point. My point was: why has the newsreader
portion of OE 5, and now Entourage, been eviscerated? But seriously, if I
had to choose between Entourage with a sub-standard newsreader, and a
trimmer, perhaps more efficient Entourage without, I think I would choose
the latter.
Like you, Mikel, I would much rather use one integrated program for all my
Internet-related reading activities. Ideally, this would be Entourage with
the newsreader functionality restored.
(BTW, the program you worked on, that you mentioned, what was it?)
CMS
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