Hello Melissa, On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:30:40 -0800 GMT (27/10/2003, 00:30 +0700 GMT), Melissa Reese wrote:
>> I would not recommend this product to my parents or other non-geeks, > On the other hand...I did get my mother - who is impressively > non-computer literate - to use TB!. I did this *because* of her lack > of geekiness, as she was constantly infecting her machine with viruses > and worms with the help of OE! :-) My mother, when she was fed up with AOL/Germany's "customer service", wanted another email address. But she didn't want OL/OE to pop-check it, because she didn't want to be vulnerable to viruses. So TB is what she uses for that account; she uses no geeky features, no special templates, just out-of-the-box. (She is also back to AOL for some reason and therefore now has two email addresses. But she uses TB for the other one without difficulties.) Another example is my prof, who changed from Eudora Pro to TB (and paid for it) because there was one single feature missing in Eudora, and he hasn't looked back since. And he is also a non-geek: when I tried to explain filters and folders to him, he just said he won't need that. This is what fascinates me about TB: it appeals to geeks and non-geeks alike. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "I tested this program in the presence of a certified child labourer, and she went crazy over it. " - Wanda Sloan in a software review for an icon-generating program. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.01.7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
