Requiem

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Steve,

And PMMail is *extremely* accessible to those of us blind individuals
using screen readers.

Regards.  
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:09:52 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:28:57AM +0100, David Gaskill wrote:
>> No, I don't think PMMail can make money in the Windows market. I have never
>> come across anybody that uses it who isn't a migrant from a OS/2. As I have
>> suggested previously to carve out even a miniscule share of the Windows
>> market would need promotional expenditure which I suspect is beyond the
>> means of the present owners. 
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>    This, again, flies in the face of TB! which is veru similar to PMNail not
>only in look, fell and features, but is programmed mainly by 1-2 guys like
>PMMail was under Southsoft.  Difference between PMMail and TB! is that TB!'s
>programing core releases versions frequently.  TB! is constantly at the top of
>the list on www.winfiles.com and has never been dropped from TuCows like
>PMMail has.  All BSW needs to do is start down that path and keep the name out
>there.  Hell, PMMail was well enough known to hit 2nd place on Deja's poll
>behind only TB!.
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>    So, again, TB! can make money in this market, there is no reason that
>PMMail cannot.
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>> It would be very difficult indeed to persuade me to use any client other
>> than PMMail because it does everything I want and I am thoroughly familiar
>> with it. 
> 
>> Most people would say the same thing about Outlook Express, Eudora or
>> whatever ...
>
>    However, the majority of the people don't have ties to their email client.
>They use it simply because that is what was given to them.  In a market
>measured in the millions even getting something as small as 0.1% means tens of
>thousands of customers.  In a market where growth is measured in the millions
>even a small percentage means tens of thousands of new customers each year.
> 
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