Mikael Byström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >. This has come up periodically in the past and I think the end > >result is that, it is not going to be a part of PM. > > I don't see the logic in that assumption. if some technique for threading > catches on to become a standard, hopefully an open one, then I can see > CTM adding it.
There are various ways, and at least the one used in MacSoup is definitely working, now and for years (and that's why I use MacSoup to handle PowerMail's maillist). I think the issue here is not CTM deciding wether to add the feature (obeying or not to the few here wanting it, of which I am). I know, Mikael, that you disagree with me on this topic, you believe by insisting enough here on the list they will end in doing it. But I fear the problem is much broader. I fear the issue is, PowerMail sales now are just unsufficient to maintain CTM afloat. This is not because of the software intrinsic features -it always has been a very good software. But the fact is, nowadays, on the macintosh, in front of such free developments as Apple's Mail or GNUMail (have you seen GNUMail's graphic threading?!), it is extremely difficult to *gain enough new customers every month* to just feed a software development team, or even a single programmer. In the software development cycle there is a time when your invention becomes so widely known, it is a typical topic for freeware developers. Mailreader applications are just there today. To me, the very survival of CTM is in developing *another* software that would not be a mail reader, and just maintain PowerMail with minimum efforts. Which they do: the present Powermail version 5.1 is simply a renamed beta, with the same unfinished features as in the beta (printing without print dialog, etc.), even, the readme is the very same as in the beta. And this situation is lasting for months. I sincerely hope CTM will come with some new RSS aggregator with SpamSieve filtering, or some other innovative application, which in my view is the very single way for us to see PowerMail alive next year. All the best for CTM, and count me in the first buyers of their next software, Hervé -- remove ".listes" and add a dot after fh please enlevez ".listes" et ajoutez un point après fh
