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Om 2:16 op vrijdag 3 mei 2002, Mandara:

> Ahhh... Bat became so excellent right because it was *different*, and
> pretty "independent". Ahhh... Hmmm... Grmph... Hmmm...

it is pretty because the programmers designed it right, and used the input
they got from their advanced customers right. microsoft probably uses the
same approach (polls, beta-testing), but their envisioned userbase is more
'stupid', and thus the resulting product has more 'fluff' liked by
'children' and less advanced features liked by 'elders'. (the terms do of
course not relate to age :)

that, and their delivery-model does not match with the beta-cycles we see
here at riotlabs (typo deliberately not corrected :).

using s/mime instead of pgp is of course a personal choice. personally i
despise s/mime for the same reason i despise html-in-mail: you bother the
recipient with more 3 to 4 K useless random crap, thus lowering to the
signal/noise ratio that is usually too low to begin with. PGP is usually
much nicer than that.

i sometimes find myself on a seemingly hopeless crusade, pointing people
to nice and not-so-nice "how and why should one trim and inline-reply
one's email"-sites, trying to explain, but i am often being met with a
blank stare (over email, that is :).

> Standards are very important in mass-communications, and M$ is just
> breaking it, but this is M$. Question is: why TB's supporting this? But,
> maybe I grasped TB concept wrongly...

s/mime is just another RFC... don't know exactly who started it. i vaguely
remember that it was eudora, though i might be wrong.

> Of course. But not, that's not quite exactly what I mean. If you have
> several folders starting with letter "e" try to browse this way and
> you'll see that you can do that only once. For instance, I have in each
> (of 21) account folder named "Lists" and could easily switch between
> them just by typing "L" all the way around. Similar is with folders
> "News", "Private" etc.

weird. i have folders starting with 'maart', 'marie-' and 'mariek' and
find myself able to bounce happily between all of them. the only folders
that do what you describe are the inbox and my inbox-unknown folder.
spaces in names seem to be bothersome as well (folders 'mark b' and 'mark
h'), since the space seems to be caught by the preview-pane. what seems to
work though for flipping between inboxes is pressing 'down' first, then
typing the name. is that a workaround perhaps?

Mrten.

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