On Sep 28, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Beatrice Hopkinson wrote:
I can't believe I am reading your response UNLESS you are
referring
to
the use to which some users need to put CE. As you know I've been
using
Claris OS9 on my OS X 10.4.11 and most of the time its fine. I do
worry
about
the enormous amount of folders and files I have on it and am trying to
think
of ways of diverting some of my material onto Gmail. but how to do
it.
Are you really advocating abandoning CE????????????????
I'm not telling anyone to leave CE. What I'm saying is, some people
jump thru hoops to use CE when there are better email clients out
there for their needs.
I am also saying for anyone that can't run CE natively (anyone using
an Intel iMac or OS 10.5), that they should really really take an
honest look at moving on, because running CE in SheepShaver
(currently the only option), makes for a very bad user experience.
P.S. I hate html's - they are practically unreadable visually to
me and
I always
suspect virus's despite assurances my Mac will handle them.
Of course you hate HTML email, you are using an email client that
can't render it. So you see a bunch of raw HTML code. Try using a
modern email client that can render HTML and you will suddenly find
all that unreadable junk goes away and you are left with anywhere
from a regular email, thru nicely formatted, colored, etc, email.
As for viruses, there are, at current, exactly ZERO viruses in the
wild for OS X. There is ONE trojan horse, but unless you routinely
view porn from unknown web sites and are easily duped into manually
downloading and running an installer under the guise it is a codec
needed to view said porn, then you are in no danger of getting it.
In fact, running OS 9 in Classic on your OS X machine so you can use
Emailer actually puts you at GREATER danger of getting a virus on
your Mac. There ARE viruses for OS 9 and prior versions of the Mac
OS. Although very few, not common to get, non transmittable directly
by email, and none of any real danger since the OS 6 and earlier
days. But the fact remains, if it is viruses you are worried about,
stop running Classic, because OS 9 can get a virus. Get rid of
Classic, and you are on only OS X, which is as of current, immune
(except as noted above on the porn trojan horse).
-chris
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