George writes:
>> Now they are just like IE and Communicator. So what does anyone need
Eudora
>>for?
>>
>
>'cause it's a great program? Other than Pegasus, I haven't found
>a package that does as much. I especially like this new feature
>where you select a subject and hit "alt" and all those posts
>within that thread appears. Since I now average over 600
>e-messages a day, this is a great time saver.
Well, they used to be a great program, as I define "great program" anyway.
The feature you speak of already exists in earlier versions. Alt-U sorts a
box by subject (with very little, if any error).
In any event, I get tons of e-mail per day as well and the only thing that
really helps is filtering. I can then sort, easily, by just about anything I
want.
Pegasus was way too complicated to use. Keyboard shortcuts were lacking, if
I remember; mailboxes were not readily (with only a few keystrokes)
available; stuff like that.
Eudora also had (and has) neat features like the ability to add your own
hearders. (See mine above.)
>Not sure what you mean by using MS's viewer. When I click on a
>hyperlink, I get NS, my default browser.
Then came 4.0 and it was ruined. Not that it got rid of features, but the
ones they added bloated the program and made it harder to use. Some examples:
No proxy support, or at least, I can't find it. (my proxy requires:
sjf#finehummel.com@proxyserver and Eudora insists on sending
sjf@sjf#finehummel.com@proxyserver);
It uses almost 20% of my resources. I don't have an NT machine, so resources
are limited. 3.0.x takes up very little of my user or GDI resources;
My biggest complaint, however, is the marriage of Eudora to Microsoft's
viewer (to view html). I am aware that this is optional, but its inclusion
nonetheless only serves to further bloat the program. More importantly, it
is evidence that Qualcomm has adopted the misguided (MS; newbie;
net-ignorant) view of the net. As a purist, this makes me angry.
When it comes to e-mail, leave the bells and whistles off, for crying out
loud. Back in the mail& elm days, everyone saw the message as it was
written. Now I get crap like (misspellings intentional) <a
hrf="htp://www.website.com">The web page I was talking about is here<.a>;
BOLD; small little teeny tiny stupid Outlook default fonts; wrapping at 10
characters or 20 characters or 200 characters; and other puhthetic stuff.
A great e-mail proggie will reconize links and make them live. Beyond that,
use of attachments should be the order of the day. Leave the browser wars
out there on the web.
Bah! Sometimes I wonder what the hell engineers are thinking!!
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sjf
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Scott J. Fine
Fine Hummel, P.C., Attorneys At Law
7 High Street, Huntington, New York 11743
Tel: 516.351.2100 Web: http://www.finehummel.com
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