Splitting out PMMail

[Steve Lamb]

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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:41:17 -0600, Darren V. Croft wrote:

>I think their best bet for revenue at the moment is upgrade dollars
>from current customers.

    Current customers is a diminishing cash flow.

>The next market I would try and go after is soho. Places who don't want
>to deal with exchange or notes but who need something better than
>Netscape or AOL.  To compete in that market PMMail needs an elegant,
>easy to use, reliable product. It needs to be marketed to that segment
>and probably needs to be bundled with a mail server that meets the same
>criteria.

    How can it be better than Netscape, which is free, and be monolithic. 
Most people won't even look at Netscape.  Furthermore, as it stands now,
PMMail, featurewise, is so far behind Netscape, it isn't worth mentioning.

>By the way, I don't see the external editor interface as elegant.
>Ingeneous yes, but not elegant, not something you look forward to
>using.

    Funny, I look forward to using it and I do find it elegant.  Maybe that
is because when I use it I can reflow quotes with no problems, quoted
material is a different color for different levels of quotes, I actually have
real editing features and options (macros anyone?) that I don't have in the
CUA editor.

    Dumbing down the product and making it monolithic and it is just another
Netscape/Outlook which are free.  Won't work.

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