Rick Merrill 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'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.
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....
Suppose you had browser-based email whose interface looked and worked
like the SeaMonkey mail client? Surely you wouldn't hate that!-)
The big advantage of such a system would be that it makes your address
book and bookmarks available to you from any of your computers.
It won't happen and I don't trust any web based mail.
--
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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