On 1/25/10 5:48 PM, "Caio Chassot" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Yeah. Stupid mainframes with deacde plus uptimes supporting tens of
>> thousands of users with a single box. How stupid was THAT.
> 
> If you like big and old why aren't you doing email on emacs, again?

Recognizing that "old" isn't always "bad and stupid" is not the same as
being a Stallman-level luddite. Just because it's old doesn't make it good
or bad.

>> If you require full caching, you're saying "We only want indie devs and home
>> users."
> 
> Or I'm saying, this is a Mac client and implementing the feature we want
> requires a local copy of every message.

If you're supporting IMAP in you know, a real way, then no, in fact it does
not. 

> 
> 
> 
>> That's hard to believe since you want damned near every point I bring off
>> shoved off to narnia. I'm sorry. Version 2. Forgive my cynicsm, but its
>> pretty obvious to me.
> 
> And maybe it does warrant some clarification.
> 
> Are we talking about Mac power users or IMAP power users? Or what particular
> mix of both? 
> 
> Genuine question. I want to hear from more people.

Thus far, what I'm hearing is "Programmers"

> I snipped most of your repeated jabs at how plugins are evil and this is a
> programmer only project. If there's any particular point you want addressed
> let me know.

That's because you missed the point. Plugins are neither evil nor good. They
are a way to get things done. That's all, and they aren't the only way. An
*overreliance* on plugins as the Deus Ex Machina for "any feature I don't
like" is silly, bordering on stupid. The slick "that will be a plugin" reply
to EVERYTHING that isn't a programmer feature, or is an actual IMAP feature
is not a good thing.

As far as the programmer only thing goes, well, one can only go by what one
sees, and thus far, this is not a non-programmer ffriendly app

-- 
John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com              Mac and other opinions
[email protected]


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