Saturday, January 18, 2003, 11:19:53 AM,Miguel wrote: MAU> Why are some of you somewhat "afraid" of a newsreader/mail client MAU> combo? It could be (should be) quite transparent to you if you just MAU> want to use it for e-mail. As I envision it, the difference would MAU> (could) be that when you want to create a new account you are given MAU> the option to create a mail or a news account. If you create a mail one MAU> you have to configure the POP and SMTP servers, etc., and if a news MAU> one the news server. What a big deal! Just like now when creating a MAU> news folder we have the option to create a normal folder in the MAU> selected account or a global folder.
I'm not afraid of it Miguel, I just don't want to use TB! in that way. As I said elsewhere if I wished to use newsgroups (which I don't any more) I would go back to using Gravity which I like immensely for that purpose. In the same way as I like TB! immensely for my mail, and so on. I think what worries me about programs which do multiple things is that they can (not always it's true) get to the stage where they do everything OK but nothing eally well. In other words you can get by with them, but they are not as good *in my opinion* as standalone programs for each purpose. Taken to its extreme we could say let's design a super program that does everything - mail, news, ftp down/uploads, writes webpages, produces office type documents, incorporates a firewall and an anti-virus and so on. But would we want this? I certainly wouldn't. I want the freedom to mix and match programs that - for me - do the best job in the way that suits me rather than be forced to buy super programs that multi-function. OTOH if the extras like a newsreader option were to be available via plugins, in the same way as are existing anti-virus and PGP plugins, then I'd have no problems with that. As ever with this it is very much a matter of what suits the user best :-) -- Cheers, Anne Using The Bat! v1.62 Christmas Edition on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 Visit The Bat! Users' Unofficial Help Forum http://the-bat-forums.donzeigler.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
