Re: TAN: Netscape Mailer

Thank you, David and Tim; what I dislike about the Netscape is the squinchy little
screen it gives you for devising your reply letters.  It's so claustrophobic.
There,
I've maximized it, but it still like having the whole screen.  PINE also numbered
your messages; I don't know if you get that in Eudora Pro.  I've tried the
lite...the
great advantage to these mailers is that your attachments are right there, your
attached graphics show up, and you can click on any URL or email and voila.
PINE had nothing like that.  But it had superior folder archiving...again, at a
price;
it was all stored remotely, and if you went over quota, they chopped your head
off with no warning.  That's what happened to me this weekend.  I spent the entire
two days downloading/unarchiving and saving to disk my precious responses from
the Lunatic Survey which I have yet to send to John Fisher, Diana Slattery, and
Padraic Brown.  I'd also really like Andrew of Brithenig to take it as well, but
I've
had nothing but silence from him!  ;-)

Sally
(still no signature)  scaves@frontiernet.net     http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves
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Tim Smith wrote:

> At 09:35 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Sally Caves wrote:
> >Why is it on this damned new mailprogram (I've switched to Netscape Mailer)
> >that on some replies, no matter how insistently I ask it to reply just to
> the sender,
> >it gives me the public listserv address anyway?  This never happened on PINE.
> >It makes for extra vigilence if you want to reply privately...I can foresee
> all sorts
> >of embarrassing errors if you forget to check your header, because although it
> >gives you an option when you mail (reply to sender, reply to list), that
> doesn't
> >always work.  I have to write down the private address, go to the To: line,
> erase
> >the Constructed Languages List address and type in the private address.  What a
> >pain.  As I said, this was never a problem with PINE.  But PINE has its other
> >problems (really difficult to save to disk, for instance, constant quota
> problems, etc.)
> >
> >Gripe gripe gripe, and still no signature.
>
> I'd recommend Eudora.  It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than Netscape
> Mail, IMHO.  Eudora Light is available for free from the Qualcomm web site
> (I don't remember the URL, but it's probably either www.qualcomm.com or
> www.eudora.com).  There's also Eudora Pro, which you have to pay for, but
> the Light version is more than adequate for my modest needs.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tim Smith
> timsmith@global2000.net
>
> The human mind is inherently fallible.  It sees patterns where there is only
> random clustering, overestimates and underestimates odds depending on
> emotional need, ignores obvious facts that contradict already established
> conclusions.  Hopes and fears become detailed memories.  And absolutely
> correct conclusions are drawn from completely inadequate evidence.
>         - Alexander Jablokov, _Deepdrive_ (Avon Books, 1998, p. 269)