Hello Deryk Lister,
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:31:47 +0100 GMT your local time,
which was Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 6:31:47 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Deryk Lister wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> On Tuesday 27/06/2000 at 20:49, you wrote:
>> I don't recommend TB! to anyone outside of power users. It's just
>> not worth the effort for most people.
> That just about sums up my feelings. I find TB! great, with the
> exception of the text editing system, which doesn't really take the
> "Wrap Lines at nn characters" into account when you edit a previous
> line of text. I hear that's an old Delphi problem.
A friend of mine is using a very old version of the bat.
Reason is that he had a stroke, is since that time liable to do some
silly things with his PC (managed to burn the thing up, caught fire on
the ramstrips..
After a current ongoing cancer treatment I would say he is about one
of my most retarded customers.
But the bat doesnt give him any problems for simple emails.
I think I have less problems with him then when he used the MS stuff.
Ok, he isnt filtering, high lighting, doing expressions and all that
stuff.
All he wants to do is read / send and print mail and look at some
attachments they send to him
I would imagine that half the users if not more would be very happy
with an email client which works as well as the BAT with less features
as they arent using them anyway.
> It's just too much effort for standard users (aka normal people)
> since
> there are too many undocumented features and ctrl-alt-shift-[x]
> routines that don't have a menu item :)
BUT, how many people use those things...
> In a way, as with Linux, I would rather it stayed that way. Make it
> too appealing for no-brainers, and everything will be ruined by
> clueless AOL users - just like Usenet, in the September That Never
> Ended =)
> We don't want TB users TYPING IN ALL CAPS NOW DO WE? (That reminds
> me, we need a lameness filter that deletes any emails that have too
> many capitals in them!)
> [No offense to anyone here who really does use AOL for some reason,
> but... wake up and smell the coffee :p ]
Best regards,
tracer
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