On 7/22/04 12:32 PM, "Hanagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies if I inadvertently purple-nurpled anyone. I certainly don't > mean to. Just that every once in a while someone has to stand up in favour > of individual choice. A view entirely in opposition to current American, > corporate ideals.
But what you're talking about is not specifically individual choice. The more sophisticated and even "bloated" with preferences, the more choice there is. What you're talking about is the specific option of _reducing_ choice because you don't need any of the choices. OK. If having them there bothers you so much, it sounds like what you want is an email program, not a combined email-plus-information-manager. Sure, that's OK. There are a lot of email programs out there. If you find Entourage to be the best one, then I guess you're stuck with the extra stuff it comes with. That's your decision. You can hardly expect MS to make it that way (in other words, Outlook Express for OS X,) just for you, when they know that far, far more people do like and use some of the extras. If you're sure that 2004 adds only more extras you don't want, sure - stay with X. But a lot of people who don't use the calendar, tasks, projects or any of that - just email and the address book - would still feel that 2004 was well worth it just for new "groupings" - i.e. threading of messages with secondary sorting. It makes reading mailing lists and newsgroups much nicer. There' lots more. But go ahead and make your stand for civilization. It's your particular individual choice (fewer options) - not individual choice as such (necessarily more options) - that you're espousing here. That's OK. You can still use Emailer or OE in Classic if you feel better with them, too. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
