At 2003-05-21, 12.16 CET, Ben Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To us who have already "converted" one or two of these imperfections >> aren't the whole world. But it could make the difference for the >> person who is running a trial version. > >I suppose. I would figure the lack of an up to date manual would be a >bigger astonishment for a new user, but that's been hashed to death and >CTM have had plenty of opportunity to do something about it.
In my experience most men who believe they know something about computers (yours truly included) wouldn't even look at a manual for the first installing and testing of a new software. And when it comes to such an "easy" an app as an email client, I'd say most decisions are taken without a manual as well. You poke around a bit, perhaps looking for that very feature that made you go look for something else. If you find it, you go "Hey - this is The App !!!" One hour later you have bought it, and plan to spend a few nice hours setting up an app that will truly make a difference. From now on you plan to spend your evenings on a nice pub or with your wife and kids instead of fighting with much-less-than-optimal applications until it's so late you might as well sleep over at the office. After a while you are to configure the app for its every day duties and you can't figure out how to set up those 40 filters sorting by body text which you used in your other app. It's *now* you are in for your big surprise - NO MANUAL... !!!!??? But hey -- you're a real man, right? And who needs a f-ing manual anyway? And without really understanding what happened you suddenly find yourself in the office at night again. Sleeping... ;-) Max G
