Hello Leif! On Thursday, October 20, 2005, 11:10 AM, you wrote:
>> John Doe Users don't even know that TheBat! exists! TheBat! is an >> email-client for experienced users who search for it and buy a >> licence being conscious about its functions and features. This wasn't true for me. I was pointed to The Bat! from a mailing list that consisted chiefly of users of Outlook Express. I wanted to be able to look at my mail's senders on the server before downloading it. I had no vocabulary for that--like "headers" and "server"--but KlezH had just destroyed my sister's machine. So, I'd found MailWasher. But MailWasher with Outlook Express had a lag--by the time I had okayed the messages I wished to receive, sometimes there were more that I hadn't looked at and they came into Outlook Express without my having a chance to say "yes" or "no." At Rootsweb's Anti-Virus Discussion List I got lucky. Two computer professionals who'd just acquired The Bat! were moderating the list. And they encouraged me to try it. The Mail Dispatcher is the reason why I will always stay with The Bat! The MicroEd is the icing on the cake for me. All the rest, I just stick around here testing because I've come to love the community of people on the TB! mailing lists. > That would be a very incorrect statement. Mary Bull... Front and > center please. Mary came to TB with very little knowledge of how > e-mail and the internet worked. ... For "very little" read "no" knowledge. I barely knew how to use my computer and the OS Win95. > ... Mary isn't the only one. There are quite a few (see TBUDL). And > the lists only represent a small fraction of the population using > TB. ... I fully agree with this point. > ... Mary has come a long way since then. ... But I still learn something new every day here. > ... She's even a valuable asset to the community as far as I'm > concerned, but when she first started using TB, she was *not* an > experienced user. Thanks for the kind words, Leif. It is true. I was not an experienced user of computers that could access the Internet. And I didn't do a systematic search for a safer e-mail client. (For a long, long time after I joined these lists I would puzzle to myself about what a "client" was in this context and what the initials MUA meant.) I was just lucky enough to run into Anne and Barry Morgan at a time that I was truly panicked about the vulnerabilities in Outlook Express, especially the preview pane which had let KlezH, and a worm that piggybacked in on it, onto my sister's machine. >> Sorry, but that's nonsense. We are talking about an experienced >> eMail-Client for experienced users. Not true. Or at least, not true for many users of The Bat!, like me. > See above. Indeed. :thumbup: -- Best regards, Mary The Bat 3.61.13 Echo (Beta) on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.61.13 (Echo) | '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/
