Dear Ken Friday, January 16, 2004, 16:07 + 1100, you wrote:
kg> S & J Love wrote: >> cc D Wilde (I.T. guru & fellow BMW rider)...I was going to introduce >> the analogy of BMW bikes (highly competent but not loved by the >> masses) vs (say) Harley Davidsons (majoring more on form than function), but >> decided not to go there <g> kg> Your position on The Bat contradicts my idea of BMW motorcycles kg> (function over form) - BMWs are reliable and often considered downright kg> "geeky" in the motorcycle world. If anything, The Bat! is the BMW kg> motorcycles of the e-mail clients. kg> Outlook would have to be the Harley of e-mail clients: big, fat, slow, kg> troublesome and MASSIVELY popular. I was perhaps unclear: I WAS thinking BMWs (I own and ride a R1100GS) are perhaps analogous to The Bat!: emphasis on function rather than form (prettiness, appeal to the masses). However, analogies are not perfect. The VFR800 for example, while having wider appeal, is nonetheless an outstanding bike despite its wider appeal. It is perhaps an example of how good -excellent! - a product can get if the developers stick with it and overcome earlier problems. I hope The Bat continues in the same vein. BTW, many thanks to all those helpful replies to this and earlier posts: don't take my silence to mean ingratitude. Quite the contrary. Apologies to any Harley or Outlook Express devotees on the list: one man's meat and is another's poisson... ;-) -- Kind regards, Stephen Love Sunday, 18 January 2004 18:37 + 1100 Mailer: The Bat! v2.02.3 CE (www.ritlabs.com) Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure. ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
