On Thu 26-May-05 5:43pm -0500, Mary Bull wrote: > On Thursday, May 26, 2005, 5:26 PM, you wrote: > >>> So far this looks like a winner to me. > >> Try out, for example, the "Watch Replies In" feature. >> This still looks like another loser to me. > > It's all in what you need. I never have used that feature. I think it > will be put back, though. > > This is still a work in progress--a major re-write of the User > Interface.
Then why release it. It should remain a beta until broken features are fixed. > Meanwhile, this version installed with ease, hasn't crashed yet, has > so far refrained from offering me an AV, is fast, sends and fetches my > POP3 mail. It installed well here because I used the RAR file. After trying that MSI fix release, I don't trust them. It failed to update 3.5.0.11 - even after I deleted thebat.exe, the MSI installed 3.5.0! Later I discovered that RITLABS replaced the MSI with the old version without notifying the group (the "notification" was buried in a thread). > For me, as a beta tester (and v. 3.5.18 is plainly a beta--said so > in the download URL), the characteristics I note in the paragraph > above make .18 a winner, if only for me. Though I look forward to even > better and smoother functionality being offered to me soon. :) Yes, .18 is a beta, but the release that broke actual functionality was a full release - making it a real loser. Any beta that doesn't add broken functionality is also a loser. While I understand that many users love various cosmetic tweaks, I like to work with the keyboard. 3.5 has taken away many shortcuts and causes working with the keyboard to be more labor intensive. BTW, Mary, as I said, the missing Watch "Replies in" was just an example. -- Best regards, Bill The Bat! 3.5.18 Pro BayesIt! 0.8.1 X-Ray 1.4.0.0 XP Pro SP2 POP3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.0.18 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
