Hello TBUDL@thebat., Thursday, January 5, 2012, 2:50:14 AM, you wrote:
TF> Hello Ian, TF> Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 7:24:37 AM, you wrote: IAW>> RITLabs don't want to describe releases as BETA because they are not IAW>> betas. They describe them as ALPHA yet the list footer added keeps IAW>> saying TF> An ALPHA version is a crude attempt at fixing bugs or adding new TF> features. It will be tested thoroughly in-house, to see whether it TF> fixes the issues addressed. TF> Once the in-house testing has been completed successfully and the TF> developers believe that everything works fine, a BETA version is TF> released to external testers. The reason is that everybody uses a TF> software differently, and even though the ALPHA testing concluded that TF> all is fixed, BETA testers will invariably find things that haven't TF> been fixed. TF> Not so at Ritlabs. ALPHA versions (i.e. versions that have not been TF> thoroughly tested in-house) are released to external BETA testers. TF> Personally, I am not confident that filters for POP accounts work as TF> reliably in v5 as they do in v4, but it isn't even adressed in BETA TF> testing any more. I wouldn't dare trying a release version. TF> Background: Some people advised on the BETA list that there are TF> intermittent problems with filters. Nobody at Ritlabs cared. I have TF> over 100 filters with several conditions each, sorting into well over TF> 100 folders across several accounts, so this is a core issue for me. TF> The very reason I bought TheBat! back in 1999 and kept contributing to TF> the BETA list and kept upgrading was the superior filtering system. TF> But if that is not a priority for Ritlabs any more, I wouldn't know TF> why I should upgrade beyond the perfectly-working v4. The filters work TF> great in v4 (the best POP client in the world) but are not 100% TF> reliable in v5. TF> I cannot afford to try v5 until it is confirmed that the filters for TF> POP accounts are 100% reliable, as they are in v4. Good luck. I installed version 5 yesterday relying on people's positive comments. I have only 5 sets of filters for one account, but all is working just fine. -- Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using The Bat! v5.0.30 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ..."Ambivalent? Well, yes and no." ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
