> Raúl Vera wrote: >You must be joking! CTM bills PM (not "PW") quite clearly as a text- >centric emailer for power email users, which they define as people who >need to handle hundreds if not thousands of messages a day in a mission- >critical capacity. >
Take a look at CTM's product page for the current version of PM: <http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail5.html> Take a look at CTM's posting to MacUpdate: <http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/4105> Nowhere in these promotions is there mention of the product being for the "text-centric emailer." New features related to the >display< of "HTML" dominate. Migrating from Apple's Mail (where simple HTML composition tools are in place), who would have guessed that PM is for folks who think HTML in email is actually, gasp! -inappropriate- ! > CTM takes the position that a significant majority of > such people prefer text-only, simply because it requires less bandwidth, > both communications and cognitive. To include "cognitive" in this statement you would have to deny the findings of human factors reasearch... since about 1965 and consider human information processing akin to that of machines. Its one thing if the product just hasn't gotten to the addition of HTML composition tools. If there is actually no intent to add them, they should make such clear. Mel
