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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Miguel A. Urech [MAU] wrote:'
MAU> Isn't "none" too "Black" (or white)? Wouldn't a shade of gray like
MAU> "only some", or "few" or... ? ;-)
Can you think of one that does both well? :)
I think you'd have to go looking in the Linux/UNIX direction at apps
like Mutt and eMacs. However, those are long standing, well supported
OSS efforts, and can't be compared to private ventures as TB! with a
small development staff behind it.
MAU> And a very valid one. But just as valid as mine if I think that
MAU> TB developers are "defocusing" by devoting time and resources by
MAU> "improving" RTV to show _plain_text_messages_ with *fake* pretty
MAU> colours and fonts that the originator never intended,
I disagree. It helps me and many others to differentiate between
quoted and new text, thus making readability a lot better. Control is
conferred on me the reader when doing this. With HTML, it's you, the
sender, who determines the fonts and backgrounds I read your mail with
(a terrible thing). These issues are all about e-mail and reading
them, so efforts made to improve on this is definitely not defocusing
on the part of TB! development.
Your point about it not being the way the author intended it is a weak
one. I'm writing this using the monospaced font Pragmata, size 12. I
don't expect you to use the same font or font size.
MAU> or by devoting time to a spam plugin API to enable a few to have
MAU> fun developing spam filters when there are already very good
MAU> anti-spam tools out there
I agree with this one, even though spam filtering has everything to do
with e-mail.
MAU> [...] or to allow the use of an alternate or external editor when
MAU> TB's one "is supposed to be the best",
;) This is again very relevant to e-mail. Trying to develop the apps
so that as many users as possible can comfortably compose their
messages is not defocusing. Developing a newsreader plug-in for TB!
is. It has nothing to do with e-mail. It does have to do with
marketing and the decision seems to have been made in the newsreader
plugins favour so...
MAU> or to PGP8 (how many TB users use/need PGP and, of those, how
MAU> many need PGP8), or to improving IMAP support, which I don't care
MAU> about, and not to extended MAPI which would be more useful to me,
MAU> or .... :-)
All these things are relevant to e-mail ..... TB! *is* an e-mail
client.
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