Hi MAU,
M> Calm down bit. Yes. Sorry, I was getting a little steamed about 9Val's latest comment on "priority" and "non-priority". It is a little less than amusing to fight daily with a malfunctioning program for three years and then being assigned "non-priority" out of hand. M> How many e-mail clients are there available in the M> market? Why choose The Bat!? When I chose it, there were no alternatives. In the meantime, there have arisen some, but it takes something to make me change from a accustomed environment to a new one, especially if I had to go through the registration circle again with the new solution. We may be at that point, though. It is not long ago I had been able to recommend TheBat universally. That was a time when I thought that malfunctions (to call them bugs would be a gross understatement) would be worked on. Instead the ones responsible spend their time painting new colours on the buttons! Incredible! :-(( Sorry, steam rising again. M> No software of this kind will ever satisfy M> every user 100%. I'll grant that for e.g. TheBat not being able to use standard LF/CR handling in the editor. It hurts me every day, but if this is just TheBat's way I can't say much against it. But on other issues this doesn't work. TheBat is sold as IMAP-capable. Still, IMAP doesn't work. This is not something to be liked or not, it is a serious malfunction. If we were talking about cars the government would withdraw RIT's license for selling this vehicle. It's only the software business where engineers still think they can get away with a product where 51% of the features are working "in some way". M> If your % of satisfaction with TB is as low as it seems from your M> message, why suffer? Go find another one. I am at that point. Up until the last few days I could not bring myself to believe that the disinterested neglegence RIT exhibits really stems from facts. I thought they were busy working in the meantime instead of writing messages. Apparently, this is not the case. They don't even pretend to be. It's at least honest, but they still won't score a cookie for it. M> Let's be reasonable. We are talking about a magnificent and quite M> complex piece of software (and therefore with bugs) [...] I'm not challenging that. I'm a programmer myself, and rationally I understand the reason that there always will be bugs. But when I market a program, I react to people's needs, concerns and suggestions. I do not develop in a direction that is neither needed nor wanted and leave my customers hanging out on the lim in the meantime. I especially don't just re-lable an alpha version that has not fixed any bugs but, on the contrary, introduced a bucket full of new ones as a release version. M> If after purchasing and using it for some time (years in your case, M> I think) someone finds his/her % of satisfaction is low, why M> suffer? Look for another one, buy it and use it happily. You're absolutly right. I will have to go that path. It is difficult for me though, because not only have I myself used TheBat for quite a while but recommended it to friends and clients, some of whom have themselves bought licenses. It's not nice to go to them and admit that I seriously misjudged the fitness of the authors of the program and that I'm sorry, but they should better use something else as well. This is not something you enjoy. Because, see - I DO care for the users I service, private or commercial. My mistake was to apply that standard to RIT, too. -- MfG, Alto mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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