Hello Dave, On Sat, 15 May 2004 21:14:36 -0700 GMT (16/05/2004, 11:14 +0700 GMT), Dave Crocker wrote:
DC> One question to ask is what happens if 10 or 20 more features like DC> this -- all equally clever -- get added? I don't actually see a problem with that. Even now, there are many features in TB that I don't use, and that's fine. However, the problem is that the developers are getting all confused and start to program a new feature, then suddenly loose interest and do something completely different. The result is that many features are half-implemented and unusable in a profressional environment. I think I have mentioned the Unread tab often enough, and IMAP is on everybody's mind. HTML mails displayed in teh PTV - and in replies - with funny questions marks or with words glued together is another example: How can I reply to my customer like that? Rit has completely lost touch with the business world's needs. DC> Since the idea of dynamically looking for new types of messages DC> could readily lead to a very long list of possible types, That's OK. Rit should just deal with the features that they have started implementing and get them to work, before starting anything else. DC> In any event, will the approach scale to accommodate that many? Or DC> will users start finding it all far too cumbersome? My guess is that DC> neither more flags nor more commands are sufficient for this type of DC> feature extension. As I said, I see no problem if TB has many features I don't need. Virtual folders - maybe I'll play with them later. It doesn't bother me at all that the option exists. But each feature must actually *work* before it makes it into a release version. This cannot be said about quite a number of features that exist now. And that is the problem. Let's not go down the road and think up new features while the existing ones are not working to satisfaction. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Hilf einem Freund in der Not und er wird sich an dich erinnern, wenn er wieder in Not ist. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.10.01 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.11 Beta/5 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
