Re: A "Survey" of a sort #17

[Tyrone Griffin]

On or about Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:52:50 -0800, Sheafe EWING or someone  claiming such identity, wrote: Here we are, a diminishing number of Emailer devoteés. I prefer to think of the process as winnowing of the chaff :) I'm still using CE 2.0v3 on my platinum G3 minitower and Powerbook 540c.   I've tried a number of newer email clients and, like Mark, I've come to  the conclusion that they just "suck."  Anyone here have an opinion (heh)  as to why the state of the art in email clients hasn't advanced in the  past several years (of course, this is from a guy whose favorite word  processor is still Word 5.1a)? Tyler Here's my 2 cents. First, I have to admit I've been off Emailer for about 2-3 years now, using OS X Mail. It's OK, but you're right, it's not Emailer.  It sounds silly, but the biggest thing I miss from CE is that I could manage a mailing list right in the app, automatically.  If an email came in with a specific subject, I could have it added or removed from the mailing list.  I digress. The reason I think is that a lot of mail app developers (and developers in general) are not asking their users what they want to do or what they want the software to do. Think about what I said above, there are plug ins that will allow some of that functionality in probably most mail apps, but CE allowed it right out of the box.  I remember back when Microsoft shipped an early version of Excel, they actually put a mail-in questionnaire in many magazines asking what features people would like to see. That was the last time I'd seen that on any product.  Now it seems more like the developer wants to go in a certain direction and force you to go that way, ie "you can have any color, so long as it's black." =