Hello, Kitty, Simon & other TB! list members following this thread, On Thursday, November 6, 2003, Simon said in response to your saying:
K>> So, I must look at alternatives. That would like moving to another planet, or as Thomas desires, to another t me / space continuum. S> I really think you'd be making a mistake Kitty. S> If you are having problems with v2 at the moment stick with The S> Bat! v1.62r for the time being and try a later v2 build. I'm S> using v1.62r and am very happy with it. I too still use v. 1.62r and paid the v. 2 upgrade price w/o installing it until the bugs (which many claim are not that bad on their machines) are ironed out. I had used Calypso and Eudora & tried Pegasus among others but nothing was as stable as TB! on my computer and the rest downloaded mail from my then 17 accounts simultaneously, not consecutively. TB!'s multilingual spell checker and pure text handling capabilities are things I wouldn't want to lose and the columns feature is so unique that I use it instead of or in conjunction with my word processors. Then too, the TB! lists are extremely valuable sources of both TB! and computer info - and where else can you get answers directly from the developers, the Selective Download and the Mail Dispatcher? So why would I want to learn a new command interface? All software contains glitches or foibles - that's part of the development process. S> I will eventually switch to v2 (especially as I've paid for a new S> licence for it) but I don't have any great urgency at the moment S> as 1.62r works flawlessly for me. That was my conclusion also, Simon. S> It's up to you what you do of course, and you must obviously S> choose what's best for you, but I've done the email client S> circuit (tried hundreds of clients) and there's nothing that S> really matches up to TB! available. If you want to save yourself S> a load of headaches and get on with mailing just go back to 1.62r S> and hang on a while...well that's my advice :-) As Simon says: Sticking w/ TB! makes sense. I've downloaded but never installed Becky and PocoMail has tried to copy some TB! features but lacks TB!'s wealth of alternatives. FoxMail even has a ticker and templates and it's free but I've no doubt that TB's v. 2 will soon become free of it's quirks. -- Douglas ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
