C> But as a selling point to get people to buy TB!, after a 30 day fully
C> functional evaluation period, the "Lite" version would become default
C> until a valid license is purchased.
C> I applaud Stefan and Max for producing and continually updating an
C> excellant product and believe they well deserved to be paid! By
C> causing the evaluation version to migrate to a Lite version the
C> customer will not loose their email, but they won't have access to the
C> enhancements either....until a valid key is purchaced.
C> Cheers,
C> Cricket
I think there might be a slight danger that the lite version will
satisfy too many persons' needs and take income away from the main
version(s). Take myself, for instance - I only became a Bat user
because I was fed up with Outlook Express pulling back html material
when online and insisting on dialling in when viewing html offline.
The dial-in demand could be disabled but at the expense of affecting
other functions and I wasn't happy with the security aspect of html
handling either.
I didn't want a client with embedded advertising/spyware but needed
good handling of multiple accounts and reasonably powerful filters.
The Bat fitted the bill fine but the networking features, pgp, macros
and templates are all redundant for me. In fact, I disable the mail
ticker, find the editor a pain and also wipe most of the account
default template settings. I'm not saying this is the way it should be
- just that I'm sure there is a section of the market where people's
needs are quite basic but they do not want to use OE or other html
clients.
One of the program's biggest plusses for me is the message dispatcher
- I had no idea it was there for a couple of months until I found it's
use being discussed on the mail list. As a feature, it is just
described in the Help file as 'Manage your mail on the pop server' -
what underselling for new users! An old hand or systems administrator
might recognise the implications of this description straight away but
a lot of people won't. It's an absolute godsend for deleting large
mails, unsolicited or otherwise, without having to download them or
apply a universal size block on a account that stops everything. Yes,
I could telnet into my account but that's obscure for most people and
this feature makes it so much easier. I know people who on being sent
an unsolicited 5mb attachment will just moan about their phone bill
and sit there while it downloads!
My thoughts would be to stick to the current arrangement but to bear
in mind the Bat customer base are a pretty varied lot and easy to use
configuration of features is probably, IMHO, a better option than
producing a lite version.
John Rainer
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