Ben Bucksch wrote:
>...
> > > I think that hardly anybody who uses email regularily uses
> > > webmail.
> >
> > Only rarely do our customers do anything else but use Webmail. We
> > have thousands of customers per day.
>
> You are at an internet cafe, right?
> 1. Internet cafes are usually frequented by people who don't have
> their own internet access <-> use the internet rarely.
Of our regulars (i.e. customers other than tourists), I'd estimate the
average frequency of visit is two or three times a week. The median
session length would be about 20 or 30 minutes. Not *that* different
from Grandma checking her e-mail on her iMac.
> 2. Given the current dedicated Mailnews clients and their
> "preferences" storage (which you rightfully critized in earlier
> posts), webmail is the "only right thing" to do at an internet cafe.
True. (I notice you didn't bother indenting successive lines in your
numbered list.)
> > Hotmail has about 90 million accounts
> > (though perhaps a couple of million of those are spam accounts).
> > Yahoo Mail is in the tens of millions too.
>
> And there are a lot of internet mail newbies. What's your point?
A considerable proportion of Webmail users have been using the Internet
for years, and would find the `newbie' tag mildly offensive as well as
inaccurate. And increased experience isn't goint to magically make such
users start to want bulleted lists or variable indentation levels.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>
