-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andy,
On 14 December 2001 at 13:25:06 [GMT-0500] (which was 18:25 where I live) Andy Spiegl wrote to Andy Spiegl on TBUDL and made these points: >> I don't know if I'm one of these 'experts' called. AS> I suppose you are one of the programmers, right? No - Peter is just another user, like almost everyone on this list. He was just speaking from the perspective of *a* programmer working in a "retail software for Windows" environment. >> Does anybody screaming out this nice phrase about 'configure >> everything' has have some few thought about what _configuring >> everything_ means? AS> Yep, I sure do know what I am talking about. Since many years I am AS> mainly using Unix and I think the many configuration options are AS> one of THE strength of all unix programs. If there's something I AS> don't like or like different, I'll simply configure it AS> differently. :-) Yes, that's very true. *But*. In *nix, users and administrators are happy to dive into textual cnf files at the drop of a whim and to wade through the option specs to tweak any and all settings to absolute perfection. In Windows, any config options *must* have a UI and *must* be clearly understandable, logical and responsive. That is why it takes so much effort and, usually, has the net result of bloating what should be a simple application. When a programming team is a small and as hungry as that at RITlabs, they have to go for mass appeal. If your wish-list items can be shown to have popular support then there is a good chance that they'll expend the effort to implement them. The Resent-To is one that should be quite simple and I can see a good and wide appeal for it. You have my support for that request. Multiple replies is a bit esoteric - not something I do every day. Maybe something I've wanted 5 times in 17 years of email use - and I use email *very* heavily for both my work and play. ... and please don't mention the FSF - you should see the paragraph I just deleted. Only to say that you're begging for a heavy flaming! ;-) (If you ask nicely, I'll send you that para off-list). - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \ BrainStorm - free thinking - www: http://www.brainstormsw.com / \ PGP Key ID: 0x929DCDA0 | www: http://www.silverstones.com / ' SB! v1.54 Beta/15/iKey1000-5523848F0B1 on Windows NT 5.0.2195 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (MingW32) Comment: GPG Sealed for freshness iD8DBQE8GlcnOeQkq5KdzaARAszWAJ4senQUSSydRfN/UXCY/ILeqSbk1ACggvcL LtGya1SfMjh62oqBcT97ww0= =5Owt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
