September 12, 2000
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Matthew Haughey was kind enough to send me a note clarifying his opinion on Eudora’s statistics feature. I certainly didn’t mean to take his original comments out of context, so I feel obliged to post this feedback.
“When I said I was happy to see stats, I meant just that — the statistics themselves. I’m not interested in goofy line graphs and pie charts, but the statistical data is going to come in handy. I’ve lost track of how much mail I get a day, and always wondered how much time I spend composing messages. Email clients haven’t improved as much as web browsers and other office software applications, so it’s nice to see eudora at least trying new things. (Having said that, I agree the chili pepper feature is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen)”
Here’s my response (lightly paraphrased):
“Yes, Eudora should be commended for breaking out of the email feature rut. But I really start to get riled up when the logic behind adding a new features for is features sake alone. I guess I lumped the stats in the “questionable value” category along with the weird-ass mood measurement thing. Personally, I have no interest in the stats behind the email unless it’s helping me track bounced addresses on a mailing list or something similar. Then again, from my point of view HTML parsing doesn’t belong in an email client either.”
When all is said and done, I have to admit that I don’t even use Eudora. I’m still stubbornly clinging to a slice of the past by continuing to use an early 1998 release of Claris Emailer.
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