John Levine wrote,
| AOL owns Netscape ...
No kidding. That's why I asked whether the two might work together in some
special way; you're replying as if the corporate relationship made it a lock
that they would. You know as well as I do, John, how risky it is to assume
that the left hand knows what the right hand is doing in any large business,
more so between separate franchises within a conglomerate. AOLTW is very
far from presenting a counterexample.
AOL's owning Netscape is no grounds to assume that the two products have a
special interface; it is grounds only to be less surprised if it turns out
that they do than if MSN and Eudora did or Earthlink and Pegasus did.
| ... remember?
Can anybody forget? Tomorrow Heartland Music is going to get a piece of my
mind for messing up my CD order, and believe me I'll say something
connecting the trouble to their corporate parent. I'm well aware of who
they are.
| In Netscape 6, one of the options when
| you're setting up your mail account is to use your AOL account. It
| looks to me like technically it's nothing special, it's just an IMAP
| server that's accessible within AOL's network.
Thank you. So it puts a person into a comparable position to an OE user:
having to change the client's initial settings once to get it to send plain
text thereafter without prompting. If that's the case, at least there
shouldn't be any steps that need to be redone for every outgoing message --
no need for post-its, as you described it before. But there still would be
that first reconfiguration to do, unlike AOL webmail, which just happily
sends plain text. (Without an AOL account I can't test any of this for
myself.)
My guess is that, if someone has never used an email client except AOL's, it
would be easier to instruct such a person how to use AOL webmail than
Netscape's mail client.
