[tw] : Computers Suck

“Computers Suck”
From:	Seth Dillingham	In Response To:	Top of Thread.
Date Posted:	Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:41:07 PM	Replies:	3

Enclosures:	None.

Jim Roepcke reminded me today that Computers Suck, and Operating Systems suck, and that they're both much easier to work with if you remember that (this was part of a broader conversation, trust me).

However, in my opinion:

Nothing sucks on a computer as much as email clients.

They suck infinitely.

I've never seen or used an email client with more than "great potential". They always disappoint, and those with the most potential (like MailSmith, from BareBones) end up discontinued (sometimes unofficially) before the potential is realized. Why? Probably because the lowest-common-denominator free app, Outlook Express, has killed the market.

(Update: thankfully, I was wrong about MailSmith, it wasn't discontinued. BareBones just went a long time without updating it.)

Discussion Thread:

RE: Computers Suck (by "Greg Pierce" at 8/10/2000)

> Nothing sucks on a computer as much as email clients. > > They suck infinitely. I've felt
- RE: Computers Suck (by Philippe Martin at 8/10/2000)
  
  The thing that has always ended up killing any good things I find in an e-mail app is the data handling,
  - RE: Computers Suck (by Seth Dillingham at 8/10/2000)
    
    On Thursday, August 10, 2000 at 9:26 PM, Philippe Martin (flip@macrobyte.net) wrote: >I have at least
- RE: Computers Suck (by Seth Dillingham at 8/10/2000)
  
  On Thursday, August 10, 2000 at 9:08 PM, Greg Pierce (greg@turtleprod.com) wrote: >I've got to admit,
  - Re: Computers Suck (by Sean McMains at 8/10/2000)
    
    I dislike the filtering in OE5/Mac. I absolutely love the filtering in MailSmith, but it's a little
RE: Computers Suck (by Philippe Martin at 8/10/2000)

Nothing sucks on a computer as much as email clients. Not sure what you ask to your email client, Seth,
Email Clients: MailSmith and Mail.app (by Seth Dillingham at 6/22/2001)

I've mentioned this before , but today Greg Pierce reminded me that email software sucks . He mentioned
- RE: Email Clients: MailSmith and Mail.app (by Jim Roepcke at 6/22/2001)
  
  Me too. I hate how bad email is now that there's no money in it. And unfortunately, Mail.app gets really

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