Hello Mary and others following this thread, In response to the message Mary Bull sent on 13/07/2004 regarding "Time to Upgrade (Was: One caveat about Folder View Settings in v. 2.11.02 [was Re: Time to Upgrade?])"
DH>> ... What *are* your needs and how does v. 2 do a better job of DH>> meeting them? MB> Like you, I prefer to select my mails from the Mail Dispatcher. MB> Don't know your other preferences, but I prefer to sort by Received MB> time and view threads by None. We coincide there too. I use a three panel vertical partition spit, with no main tool bar, just the configuration tool bar, on the left; and use both the American English and Spanish dictionaries. MB> I filter to five list folders. I filter to about half a dozen PM MB> folders. I counted 300 folders on an earlier installation, when I had 17 working accounts. MB> All that works fine for me in v. 1.62. MB> For some reason--I'm a very amateur user, with little knowledge MB> and skills and not much native ability to acquire more--v. 2.xx MB> loads about twice as fast for me. I use The Bat!'s back-up tool, MB> and it backs up faster, also. I can't say for certain that it's MB> the code in the new version doing that. That's good to know. MB> I have one need you don't have which v. 2.xx meets: I want to MB> use and see the Roguemoticons. This is only possible in v. MB> 2.0.06 and higher. It's the reason I paid for the upgrade. The MB> faster loads and backups were an unexpected bonus. Photos for the address book, I assume. (It's harder to check recent headers when hundreds of posts care the subject header and most are full of chit chat). MB> But I *hate* the unstable folder View function. I'd roll back MB> from v. 2.11.02 to v. 2.0.06, except the Smiley functions (a MB> separate but related project to the Roguemoticons) are available MB> only in 2.11.02 and in the subsequent betas. These are undoubtedly Moldavian terms <g>. MB> Note: I changed the subject line (which you changed back) to MB> conform to the recently given Moderator request to make subject MB> lines as specific as possible My interpretation of that is different than yours. AFAIC, the theme hasn't changed. The thread remains: Whether or not it's time to upgrade from v. 1.62, which depends on the differences that exist between that version and the current release, as well as the existence or absence of bugs remaining in v. 2.11.02, and nothing else has been discussed. Furthermore, my post asked for responses, all of which I am reading. Rather than look for them within the mass of posts on other subjects, I selected the subject column. MB> and to change the thread if there is a sharp veering of the MB> topic under discussion within the thread. That hasn't happened. MB> We talked about this once before on tbot. I had changed a MB> subject line in order to conform to the informal consensus of MB> tbotters that this should be done. You consulted with others before doing that, did you? MB> You were, to say the least, quite vocally displeased. Not particularly. I simply changed it back, for the reasons stated above. MB> Now it is a formal requirement on the The Bat! moderated lists. AFAIC, the subject hasn't changed. MB> Note regarding Virtual Folders, which you might like, as they MB> let you read threads across folders without changing folders: MB> I suggest that you make a complete new thread with a subject line MB> something like: How Do Virtual Folders work? or How, told in simple MB> steps, can I use Virtual Folders? MB> There was a long thread on these when v. 2.xx first became available. MB> But I doubt if you have time to search the archives and find the MB> understandable and useable parts of it. I see no point in fragmenting this thread. We are not discussing food, nor motor vehicles, nor vacation spots or even, running TB! under Linux. We are discussing v. 2.11.02 as compared to v. 1.62, both of which are on the RitLabs download page. MB> Mostly it was Greek to me, I spent a month in Greece and understand a bit of it (a comment which doesn't change this thread). MB> as at the time I was still running v. 1.62. MB> Sorry to be a PITA. I don't say that. I referred to the bug you described. MB> But, it's your life, I know. MB> and you have to make your own decisions. And I decided to post and ask what I asked, so here we are. MB> I just try to offer information when I can, in memory of our many MB> common interests outside The Bat! Yes, Mary. Thank you for your helpful remarks. Also, it was nice to hear from again. BTW - Mexico is 2-1 with Ecuador at the moment, having beaten Argentina in a soccer game held a couple of days ago. Our women's team won over Australia the next day. (And please don't change the subject of any response to this post to a soccer thread unless no reference at all is made to TB! v. 2.11.02). -- Douglas ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
