Netscape integration

[Steve Lamb]

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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:00:00 -0400 (EDT), Ralph Cohen wrote:

>You left out the one thing that Bob & Ike could have done with a
>greater chance of success, and that is to work *SMARTER* instead of
>harder.

    No, that is what I meant by working less.  Using resources that are
available to them from other areas so they don't have to do the work
themselves.

>At this point, the editor and speller, etc. have already been created
>and integrated and just need to be tweaked a bit.  

    Define "tweaked a bit."  They are nowhere near the level of full featured
counterparts.  

>There would be nothing to gain at this point by dropping them in favor of an
>outside widget except for making the program undesirable for all but a very
>small group of savvy computer users.

    Yes there is, how about a spell checker that knows about contractions and
usually gets the right word on the guest list up front with no change in the
interface?

>There are relatively very few people out there who would be willing to "roll
>their own" fantastically great email program when they can get a somewhat
>adequate one already rolled.  

    Uhm, Ralph, which part of "bundled" did you miss?  I think every mention
of it that I've ever made.  To the end user all the same functions would be
there.  If PMMail linked against the aspell libraries it would be *shipped*
with those libraries.  If PMMail went to an external editor only it would be
shipped *and configued* for that editor.  That is what "bundled" means in the
software world.

>Like I said before, a large part PMMail's problems have to do with marketing
>and not with programming.  

    *COUGH*  

>Bob & Ike have a good product with a loyal following and they should take
>advantage of that before it's too late.  

    It is too late.  We're looking at ~1-2 years before an IMAP capable
version of PMMail comes out.  It should have been started 4 years ago, been
out 2 years ago so it would have name recognition *now*.


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