It's an excellent idea... Seems quote foolish that a commercial piece of
software does not have an updated manual, and that the key sources of
information are coming through the user base.
--
"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."
-- HP executive, responding to Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs'
and Steve Wozniak's attempts to interest the company in the "personal
computer" they had designed, 1976.
> From: "Louis Cornelio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "PowerMail discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 09:45:54 -0700
> To: "PowerMail discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: CTM / manual / neglect vs. nurture
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> problem: no updated manual.
> solution: CTM pays someone on this list writes an update.
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> As CTM is selling the product & it is finding new users -- look at me,
> only been a user for a few months, one would think it in their interest
> to have an updated manual.
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> Isn't it worth a couple hundred bucks to them to pay a free lance writer
> very familiar w/ PowerMail {like someone on this list} to update the
> manual to document many feature include the hints & options? {Not to
> mention known bugs & limitations}
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> That would be one *easy* step to improving the PM package. surely a lot
> easier than fixing the non-functional "search" feature. ;-) Or dont they
> even bother to make the easy efforts to improve?
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> If not, should we take such obvious neglect as a signal the end of
> development?
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> I make this suggestion not so much because I care about having a manual I
> would like to see the product nurtured rather than neglected...... am
I wrong?
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