Hi Gleason, In reply to <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>> But it's not the case here, is it? TB! problems are not located >> elsewhere, mainly TB! problems are, IMHO, due to radical changes >> and extreme anxiety to release a final version when major problems >> are still present. GP> Don't know how much we can safely hypothesize about extreme GP> anxiety. I do know that very few players in the online GP> communications arena see it in their interest to delay release of GP> the product until there are no more problems with it. Management GP> will say, get the product out there so it can pay for continuing GP> development. If it won't do that, we want to find that out now GP> before we put any more money into it. That is fairly universal GP> with software managers. Well, putting out 3.5 surely didn't do any good to Ritlabs quality image. In fact, seeing people in this list using Mulberry email client isn't a good sign. I'm sure you'll agree on this. >> I would say, "a matter of careful testing". For instance, VMWare >> has an excellent product, that surely has bugs, but that are not >> evident. By the traffic in the list you can see most people >> complaining about something wrong in some part of TB! and many >> other people confirming. We're here talking about an email client. GP> What you are really saying is that VM worked for you. You don't GP> know how many other people it did not work for. Not really! Subscribe ANY newsgroup in their newsserver. You see most people asking how to do something and very few complaining about some broken feature. And lets skip the product complexity. Here we see almost everybody complaining about something not working as it should. I had 25 betas to get a buggy final and we still have an excessive number of bugs. >> With TB! I have problems at least once a week. Yesterday I had >> problems downloading my email. It stalled. I had to abort the task >> and download it again. In the end I had to kill TB! via task >> manager because it would refuse to quit due to some unfinished >> task. This is not convenient and has been reported repeatedly. GP> On the other hand, I have not seen this behavior since the stable GP> release last September. I use TB on more than one environment and I see this behavior a lot. And several others see it. It's hard to establish a connection with what causes this but it's there. At least with the 3.5 series we can kill the stalled task, it's an improvement... Many people complain about AV. OTFE has problems. Threading seems to be broken. IMAP is not working well... GP> I would say that a fault in a program will consistently appear for GP> nearly all users, the one exception too often seems to be the GP> development computer. I disagree with you on this. I was a Ak-mail user and never had problems with it. I just switch from it to TB! because development was kind of dead and the English version isn't updated anymore. People here using Mulberry seem to be very happy. You may get their testimonial here. I'm willing to give it a try. It's always good to have a backup client. -- Best regards, Goncalo Farias as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.<R Chandl ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.26 | '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/
