>Well, I'm sure glad you are still here. I guess I don't understand why it >is that new email programs cannot duplicate Emailer characteristics >without getting into copyrights or whatever. We all seem to be hooked on >Emailer and I sure don't want to let go. Reminds me of my Jail classes >and dealing with addicts.
I don't think there is anything wrong with people duplicating Emailer's features or even the look and feel. As long as it isn't a complete duplicate of the "look" to the point of causing confusion between the new program and Emailer. But there really isn't anything that I'm aware of to stop people from ripping off the idea of the features in Emailer. And honestly, I have NO idea why some other company hasn't done so. There are 2 things that seem to keep Emailer users using Emailer. 1: The feature set (in particular the Auto File Log that lets you read in one window the emails that were auto filed into folders without digging thru the folders), and 2: AOL email connection. AOL prevents someone from doing #2 (although if someone really wanted to, it isn't all that difficult to write an AOL Web Email collection engine that will get AOL email thru their web client). But nothing is really stopping people from doing #1. I would think any smart software company would jump on the chance to adopt the feature set of Emailer and give the Emailer users a new OS X native email client that does everything they want. I don't know how many Emailer users are still out there, but I suspect we may still be in good numbers. Good enough to justify the time to put the features into an email client in the effort of converting a chunk of us. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
