From: Allan J. Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 12:20:34 EST
Speaking of Eudora, I am still using 3.0....
Downloaded Pegasus (free) but haven't had time
to play with it.
At 11:37 AM 12/2/01 -0500, Mark Bell wrote:
>Well, I approach email from the basis that all I want is plain text and the
>occasional link
>from a friend. Besides that, everything else is wasted time and effort.
>Eudora 4.2 Pro
>has been my stable for over a year, and before that, I used Eudora 3.1.6
>for years.
>
>As for corporate standards, I haven't met a system I haven't been able to
>work around
>with Eudora. I simply refuse to use OE. It is nasty, and has caused me more
>support
>headaches than I can explain. Besides being a security black hole, OE can
>bog down
>some systems and runs a little chunky. Now, if you got a Tower 'O Power,
>it's ok, but
>on systems under 300mhz running 98+, it is really slow. Eudora is speedy.
>
>Of course I can't speak for Eudora v5, since I haven't had a compelling
>reason to
>switch.
>
>Mark
>
>At 08:25 AM 12/2/2001 -0600, phillip ramirez wrote:
>>Well I didn't like it cause of the ads.. Takes up storage space on the
>>hard drive and I realy don't like it.. As far as problems well it used
>>to crash all the time. But it was about a year ago since I have used
>>eudora at home.. We use outlook at work.. I just have all email sent and
>>recived in plain text.. You can also configure your email not to run
>>scripts.. But you have to configure your browser to do it which effects
>>your email.. Its under the security settings
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Edwards [mailto:mje_at_foxall.com.au]
>>Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 2:31 AM
>>To: ThinkPad List
>>Subject: Re: Worm, and e-mail software.
>>
>>
>> Michael Edwards.
>>
>>----------------------------------------
>>[Steve Andre:]
>>
>> >> WHY ARE ANY OF YOU PEOPLE RUNNING THIS ***DISEASED*** SOFTWARE!
>> >>
>> >>The number of bugs in Outlook/Outlook Express has gone beyond
>> >>*ALL* reasonability. This software should not be used by anyone.
>>
>>[Randal Whittle:]
>>
>> >BTW, Eudora has a full-working version available and its free
>>----------------------------------------
>>
>> I have heard people comment on the fact that Eudora has some very
>>unexpected or non-standard behaviour. I don't remember the details of
>>what it was, but it sounded like a good reason not to use Eudora. Is
>>this something obvious enough that you can divine what it might be that
>>I have in mind?
>> Or might it be certain features it lacks that you'd normally expect
>>to have? I'm afraid I've forgotten what it was - but there was
>>something quite big against using it, and I remember at the time
>>mentally crossing it off my list of possible options.
>> I would still have to know how to convert my Outlook Express files
>>before I could even consider adopting another program. Or if I could
>>reliably convert the e-mail files to plain-text format and use a
>>text-editor or word-processor to read them, that would be even better;
>>and I could perhaps start again with a new program.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Edwards.
>>
>>
>>
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