On 16/11/00 at 22:19 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
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>Hi Doug,
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>On 16 November 2000 at 21:14:20 +0000 (which was 21:14 where I
>live) Doug Weller wrote and made these points:
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>DW> Thanks, but right now I can click on Edit Message in Calypso, edit
>DW> the message/subject line, and then click on the disc icon to save
>DW> it (having clicked on remove rich text (HTML) if it wasn't plain
>DW> text).
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>DW> That's a lot easier!
>
>Now, if I wanted to I could join the Calypso list (using TB) and ask
>if I can do, say, one of the many things TB does that Calypso cannot.
>Thank you for sharing with us the one thing Calypso does that TB does
>not. It has been most entertaining. However, I'm not sure that you'll
>have convinced the users here that it is a better world. (TB can
>remove HTML because it already shows the HTML attachment, which can be
>peeled off by deleting it).
Ok, finally found the post I was looking for. You've taken my comments
entirely the wrong way.
I joined this list to ask my question, not to promote Calypso, Becky, or
Agent, all of which I have used
in the past for email, none of which I have found completely satisfactory.
I have frequently looked at The Bat and
wished that it had this feature.
I said thanks, I meant thanks. I then tried to explain why the solution
offered wasn't satisfcatory to me.
>There are good reasons that an email client doesn't allow you to
>change incoming mails easily. For instance, it is this kind of
>trivialisation that cheapens email as a legitimate record of a
>communication. I know now that any forwarded message from a Calypso
>user is as unrepresentative as those I already distrust from Becky
>users. Thanks for the heads up :-).
I doubt that any email message can be counted on as a legitimate
record of a communication in this way. I seriously don't see this
as an argument.
>Sorry if this seems a bit of an aggressive response but your postings
>here seem to me like a veiled attempt to promote Calypso and that goes
>against the list policy here.
Certainly seems aggressive and insulting, yes. No veiled attempts on my
part
to do anything at all, what you see is what you get. :-)
>If that was not your intention then please accept my apologies for any
>offence caused.
>
Well, I hope you accept that I intended to cause no offense and am
genuinely interested
in The Bat as an alternative. However, given your strong position on this
and guessing
that you might have influence on its development, The Bat might never have
this feature
that I think is essential for my needs.
Doug
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