Friday, January 07, 2000, 10:36:54 AM, cid wrote:
> Steve, although you offer "workable" solutions, there are easier ways
> to deal with the The Bat!s shorcomings besides "what's between the
> chair and the keyboard", as you put it.
"Cid", what you, and Alex, are not understanding is that I don't consider
a lack of "personalities" a shortcoming, I consider it a feature. If you
consider it a shortcoming then that is clearly a perception issue and *IS* a
problem between chair and keyboard.
> You may not care to deal with mail from multiple accounts as one, but
> some of us do.
Bully for you, use another product, don't mangle this one for everyone
else who doesn't work like you do.
> I don't want to redirect messages all over the place, bouncing them through
> my ISP or anywhere else for that matter.
Forwards are acceptable use, have been for years. If not, you can always
have a local filter.
> For example, I have an old account, one that I rarely use, but is still
> active. I keep it active just in case something comes along that's
> worthwhile, maybe an old correspondence, maybe an old friend who tracked me
> down through an outdated internet search engine. Regardless of how the
> people got the address, I want to filter it the same way as my other mail.
Ah, but would you want to respond with that address as personalities
dictate?
> We can't always control where everyone sends email, we don't email
> EVERYONE everyday where we can remind them into submission.
No, we can't. But in my years and years of email I've never had a problem
on getting people to use the proper address with friendly reminders. That is
a social issue, not a technical one.
> The only other way to do that would be to have a single email account and
> give the user no choice. That's neither possible nor practical in most
> situations.
Then why have multiple accounts if you're not going to have multiple
reasons for it?
> Steve, I think you need to accept that your way may not be the
> *right* way, it's just your way.
I have accepted that. You and Alex need to accept that your way is not
the right way, either, and keep your paws off a viable client.
> If you are perfectly happy with the way it works, stick with 1.38e as long
> as you like. You don't have to upgrade.
Actually, yes, I do.
> Hopefully, when 2.x comes out, it will have OPTIONS, and hopefully you can
> continue to operate the way you do even if you do upgrade.
The problem with options is that it forces code bloat, code complexity,
configuration complexity. I'm all for options, but options that change the
fundamental behavior of the program, that involve completely different ways of
doing things and that, in essence, disable a large portion of code is nothing
more than waste to me. Furthermore, there is only so much that you can put
into "options" before people look at the options, get intimidated, and look
elsewhere. That is where multiple products come in.
> For the rest of us, that want to do things differently, we have a right to
> ask for features, and should expect them to be implemented, as paying
> customers, if they are supported by enough people.
You also have the right to move to another client. I'm sick of this move
that every program of a certain genre has to look and feel like every other
product in the genre.
> Frequently, your responses to someone's wish list have been: "Bad
> Idea" or "Wrong" type answers.
Of course. I go on to explain why, most often in technical reasons.
Saying...
> Instead of a simple: "IMHO, this would not be effective because..."
...doesn't change the fact they are bad ideas and are flat out wrong.
> You need to accept other peoples TB! usage. They aren't wrong, they aren't
> bad ideas. They may be based on misinformation, or not completely thought
> through, but if you keep bashing all the new ideas, and stifle innovation by
> telling people that the problem is the user, and the software doesn't need
> improving, we'll end up with a Micro$oft product!
Incorrect. A Microsoft product is one that tries to do everything for
everyone in one, large, monolithic application. Do *YOU* see a PIM in TB!
like there is in Lookout!? I don't. I don't bash all new ideas, I bash the
bad ones or ones that would go down the path of excessive bloat.
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