For what it's worth, I'd like to add my voice to the list of people
who
(a) think TB is a great mail program, but
(b) think its interface needs a lot of work and
(c) think its editor is just completely odd and utterly infuriating.
At the moment it's still the best email client around, but today I've
been playing around with the beta of Becky v2 (now on to beta 28 and
close to the finished article), and if the finished product fulfils
the promise of the beta, I might be tempted to make the switch.
For those TB users out there who absolutely positively have to have
3,000 templates for every conceivable purpose, then TB is the only
option. For the rest of use, Becky v2 looks like a powerful, highly
customisable program with a nice editor and, yes, a proper HTML viewer
using IE (okay, the paranoid can stay away, but for the rest of us who
enjoy reading HTML newsletters and the like...)
I'd be very interested to hear anyone else's view on Becky v2....
Finally, I normally just lurk in this group and have enjoyed the
lively discussions and gained a lot of helpful insights into TB, but
sometimes the lack of reality is alarming. HTML is a good example.
Like most users here, I would never dream of wasting bandwidth by
sending out HTML messages.
But, as mentioned above, I enjoy, like millions of other web users,
reading a variety of web newsletters, and you cannot escape the fact
that a well-produced HTML newsletter is a much more enjoyable read.
The HTML view is very important in an email program, and the TB viewer
is simply not good enough. Denying completely the usefulness of HTML
in email and insisting on a diet of monospaced fonts is just avoiding
the reality of the many uses to which we now put our email software.
John Killeen
PS: Maybe the arrival of Becky v2 will stir some action on TB v2? We
can only hope.
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> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:33:06 +0100, Graham wrote:
A.>>> The advanced feature that has me hooked the most is the use of
A.>>> templates.
G>> Whilst I like the way its implemented in TB, its not the only mailer
G>> that uses them.
> There's no mailer that even *remotely* approaches TB!'s implementation
> of templates.
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A.>>> These are what make me use TB!. If it were just down to the interface,
A.>>> I'd be using something else.
G>> Precisely Allie! (if I can refer to you as such)
> If you like, and don't get confused doing so. :-)
G>> That's what I've been trying to say. Its the features which Ritlabs
G>> have put in that require a better interface. Whether in this context
G>> "better" means "more attractive" (however that's defined) or "more
G>> like other Windows clients" is open to debate. I like TB, but not the
G>> way it presents itself to the world.
> Note that when I say that I have problems with TB!'s interface, I'm not
> referring to just how it looks. I'm speaking of problems with *using*
> the interface. TB! *looks* fine to me.
G>> Somebody suggested I look at Mail Warrior, a little Windows program
G>> that will fit on a floppy, and it has the kind of interface I would
G>> hope TB would adopt, if not all of the power (and no PGP support). If
G>> it were a matter of the interface, I wouldn't be using TB today.
> I've installed Kauffman Mail Warrior in the past and distinctly remember
> it's interface being pleasant but certainly not the answer to TB!'s
> problems. :-)
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