> On or about 2/17/2006 11:49 AM chris AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] eruditely mused > the following:
>>I am most interested in why you did not care for Mail. Since I lost my >>Claris Emailer due to my old computer dying I have been using my >>granddaughters and its Mail program and while I prefer CE I am sort of >>used to Mail now and I'm not sure I can list why I prefer CE. > >I'm not sure I can really say for sure why I didn't like Mail. I just >didn't. Nothing it it worked the way I wanted or expected. Same here, but most importantly it is so slow and as Chris says, things just did not work like I expected a well designed piece of software to function. It is klutzy, but maybe you just don't notice it due, perhaps, to using other not-very-well-designed software. I like my software to be intuitive, logical and easy to use and easy to find the functions I know should be there, and sometimes these are just too well hidden. That is unproductive, but then productivity to one person is different than to someone else. > >>The other question I have is why is it that so many of you >>professionals prefer CE and why then don't the designers of these other >>programs incorporate what CE has that would be of benefit. In other >>words why don't they come up with a standard mail program that >>incorporates the best features of all these other programs? > >Probably because it is very subjective. For instance, many CE users say >PowerMail is very CE like and find it a good alternative. The PowerMail >developers even say they tried to mimic much of CE's features, look, and >feel. But when I tried PowerMail, I just about HATED it. I found it to be >very UN-CE like. It was lots of little things about PowerMail that I >disliked. It is all subjective but I wonder how long ago Chris tried PowerMail. It has improved but maybe he will still not like it. Many keystrokes are the same as CE, i.e., Cmd + opt, + [ or ], to toggle between messages and delete or by omitting the opt, not deleting. Mail is totally klutzy to move between message if you want to delete and go to the next one. Cheers Karl ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
