Rufus wrote:
BIll Spikowski wrote:
NoOp wrote:
I wonder what affect this will have on the SeaMonkey email client:
<http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/>
<http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/>
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model>
"Mozilla is focusing a lot of its efforts towards important web and
mobile projects, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop only email
client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on
Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla and that the most critical
needs for the product are on-going security and stability. In fact, it
is quite possible that Thunderbird is already pretty much what its users
want and there is not a high demand for innovation in this field."
I agree that the Seamonkey email client "is already pretty much what
its users want" -- but that doesn't mean we wouldn't want something
even better, or at least have confidence that we won't be losing a
familiar tool that so many of us depend on so heavily all day, every day.
I can only think of one thing I might like to see - an integrated y-enc
decoder...but I could, can, and do live without that. I like what we have!
I've fallen completely for the Sync feature, and have been dreaming
about being able to Sync address books across my computers. It's quite
a shock to hear the opposite, that the Mozilla folks are about to
abandon further development of Thunderbird, and by extension Seamonkey
too.
Sync really hasn't been of any use at all to me, but that doesn't mean
other users don't like it!
The idea that webmail is clearly superior is incredibly absurd! I'm
glad it works for lots of other folks (though I suspect mainly because
they don't realize there are superior alternatives). I use webmail
often, and hate every minute of it....
I have to agree - I treat webmail as an "emergency" resource. Like if
I'm caught out without a device and I have no other alternative that to
walk into a kiosk and send a message out of absolute necessity.
I don't like web mail either.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:[email protected]
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