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On Fri, 19 May 1995, Donovan White wrote:

> ricman@iglou.com (Ric Manning) said:
> 
> I just realized that there's a big flaw, and it's directly related to your
> primary use of the product.
> 
> As an AOL user, I am more than willing to share my biggest complaint about
> that application. 
> 
> The email interface sucks. 
> 
> For each email message, the listing must be selected, a button clicked, a
> dialog box button clicked, before it will go away. You cannot select
> multiple messages. 
> 
> Mail management is the pits.

Yes, one of the biggest advantages to the "Open Architecture" of the 
internet is that you can get/use about 30 different mail interfaces, 20 
newsgroup interfaces, 7 web interfaces, and 10 TCP/IP packages.  And 
that's just on the Windows 3.1 platform.  Add UNIX at strategic points 
and you can choose from 200 server platforms and models (From an 
"introductory" used 386/SX to a top-of-the-line supermainframe), and 
about 50 workstation platforms and models.  And, you can have it serviced 
by a local consultant, because he has direct access to the source code.  
Remember when your mechanic told you the car was fine, but you needed to 
spend $2000 for the computer, that's the impact of not having source code.


	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue May 23 01:56:48 1995