Hi all, Samstag, 18. Januar 2003 12:28 you wrote:
i am lurking into this thread with interest. This discussion reminds me a lot to those Macintosh <---> Windows and OS/2 <---> Windows Discussions. In my opinion, The Bat needs to support all the features, the main competition (M$) is offering - this means HTML Emails, Usenet Group Support etc. Of course it would be great, if the user could choose to work just with plain text, or with all the bells and whistles activated. Take a look from the commercial side: "Non-Power Users" like me, like to have all the features other software is offerung included PLUS the security and mighty other functions The Bat is already offering. Just my 2 cents MAU> Why are some of you somewhat "afraid" of a newsreader/mail client MAU> combo? It could be (should be) quite transparent to you if you just MAU> want to use it for e-mail. As I envision it, the difference would MAU> (could) be that when you want to create a new account you are given MAU> the option to create a mail or a news account. If you create a mail one MAU> you have to configure the POP and SMTP servers, etc., and if a news MAU> one the news server. What a big deal! Just like now when creating a MAU> news folder we have the option to create a normal folder in the MAU> selected account or a global folder. -- Best Regards, Thorsten Bruchhäuser mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
