Mike,

> TBird is not glitter. It is a barebones, functional IMAP/POP client.

Right, barebones.  But click on an account heading, or local folders.
No, I think the glitter is there.

> You can glitz it up with themes and extensions, but the program itself
> is simple,

Right.

> it works and the average person can slide right into it.
> That is the appeal, the learning curve is not steep. Glitter, now your
> talking Pocomail.

Yes.  And functionally crippled by poor implementation and bugginess
in the case of Poco.

> Unfortunately for RITLabs, (other than the fact that they have a crappy
> web site), they do not seem to be marketing towards the commercial
> sector very heavily.

I wonder how it was that seemingly everybody all at once became aware
of Firebird/Thunderbird.

I remember a techie friend in the early days of Firebird saying that
it was superior because it introduced tabs.  He didn't seem to think
that Netscape had tabs.  Never heard of Opera.  So what was the
secret?  How did Moz get noticed?



-- 
 Gleason                            

 Using 3.99.25 on Windows XP, 5.1, Build 2600.
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