Hello Steve,
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 10:48:07 PM, you wrote:
> Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 12:34:10 PM, Eberhard wrote:
>> IMHO it is no valid reason to deny this just bcs it would make TB!
>> more similar to those other mailers. Not everything is bad that the
>> majority likes, and not everything is cool just bcs it's different.
> And not everything the majority likes is good and not everthing that is
> similar is cool.
This is a tautology to my lines.
> Point is that there exists a segment of the population that doesn't want
> or need what is offered elsewhere and when they have a product that does
> address their needs it isn't cool to come in and ask for that functionality to
> be trashed to conform to what is offered, quite often, elsewhere.
I'm sorry for having disturbed your little paradise (pince me to wake
up bcs I'm somehow under the impression that this is just a bad dream
or a sad joke - are seriously telling me to shut up bcs I'm suggesting
a change in a publicly used mailer?).
> When it comes to MP/MDI apps off the top of my head:
> Pegasus, Outlook Express, Eudora, Instinct, iScribe, Calypso, etc.
> Notice that the first three are the top email clients out there. Netscape
According to what standard? Certainly not mine. But I will giove you
that: I will check out iScribe and Instinct. Calypso sucks as well as
the "top three".
> is MDI and 1/2 MP. They don't provide for separate SMTP server per account
> and the accounts aren't really all that different. So it can almost be
> clumped with the above. That would cover /all/ the popular email clients and
> a good host of the alternatives as well.
> Now, let's compile the list of non-MDI, split-POP account clients:
> The Bat!, PMMail
> That's it. 2. One and two. Two clients there are and the number of
> clients shall be two. Three is right out. If one goes to three they have
> passed the number of clients that don't use MDI and doesn't clump all mail
> into a central location. Four, being after three, is also not the count.
> Five, too, is right out.
Thanks for the little lesson in math. I guess I passed bcs I could
follow.
> So, with that said, coming to one of the few /real/ alternatives to the
> host of clients that offer single-account, multi-pop and asking for just that
> feature is going to get you a /LOT/ of resistance, especially by people who
> need that feature. Quite frankly, since there are quite a few popular clients
> out there that implement it, use them. You have 5 good ones to pick from,
> have fun. Ask /them/ to implement features, not ruin one of the few
> alternatives.
Oh dear. If I would have known that _asking_ for sth would endanger your
peace of mind I might have restrained myself in the first place. I've
just decided that this _is_ a bad joke and that you must be sitting
in front of your screen having a good laugh all over. Congrats.
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Best regards,
Eberhard Hafermalz
Questions are burdens for the mind,
answers are prisons for the soul.
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