[Sigia-l] Mac mail packages

[andrew at friendlymanual.com]

Quoting "A.F. Cossham" <cossham00 at xtra.co.nz>:

> Kind of obvious! and no I don't expect that. I just want smaller
> building blocks so they can be assembled the way I want. I'm jolly sick
> of cute features which may sell well to people who want to play with
> the technology, but which (for me) get in the way of the technology
> itself. I end up with a picture of the designer saying "Hey, it'll be
> cool if we do this and this and this!" Maybe it is, and maybe I lack
> sufficient apprecition of such possibilities :-)

Hi Amanda,

I feel that there are three ways to go with this, and they are not mutually
exlusive by any means:
- have a thousand different clients with different ways of doing things and let
people decide which one is best for them (sort-of what happens now, except
where work SOEs or technical confidence deficit decide that Outlook or Notes
are The Way),
- have a mail client that operates on an "iPod Plus" paradigm - it gives you
"just the email, no BS" but allows configuration in an easy-to-follow yet
powerful way (and wouldn't it be good?), and
- have an office automation suite that integrates email into the suite in a
useful way that lets the power users be powerful and everyone else just gets on
with their day.

Apologies if this is going over material already said - I have been a bit
distracted and have not followed this thread as closely as I might.

Best regards, Andrew

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