On 9/18/01 at 9:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Hildum) wrote:
> Actually, I would consider Entourage to be more in conformity with standards
> and practice than Eudora in this case. Having/requiring a file with an
> ambiguous file type (TEXT) as Eudora does is not consistent with the
> expected Macintosh user experience.
Eric,
There are lots of things about Eudora that I would agree are "not consistent
with the expected Macintosh user experience," but the fact that it stores its
mailboxes as text files does not seem to be one of them. I do not understand
what's "ambiguous" about the file type TEXT, and it has the advantage of being
non-proprietary, unlike OPIM.
I'm a database developer. The programming resources that make my applications
work belong to me and I protect them as jealously as I can. But the data that my
users put into my applications belongs to them, and I work hard to make it as
easy for them to get it out as possible. It's certainly easy to drag a mailbox
to the desktop, but if you can't do anything with it then without opening
ResEdit, well, what's the point?
I don't mean to be combative. If I'm missing something here, I will be genuinely
grateful if someone could point it out.
Will
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