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From: Elaine on 16 May 2010 12:25
On Mar 20, 7:02 pm, Don Wiss <donwiss(a)no_spam.com> wrote:
> I have 7.1 installed in Win-7 64 bit Pro and have no problems. Why are you
> using 6.2?

Eudora 6.2 has more and better features than the later releases, and
has them in the places that people who have been using Eudora for many
years have become accustomed to finding them.

Inexplicably, later releases of Eudora began to do away with useful
features and altered the interface in such a way as to make it
annoying and frustrating to anyone who had developed "muscle memory"
over many years for the way it's been done from the start.

"New and improved" versions are not better if they require long-time
users to alter their habits. Computers are supposed to make our
lives easier, simplify tasks and speed our work. Learning new
software implementations is fun for some people, I realize that. But
for many of it, it is simply an annoyance and who has time for that,
especially when it is pointless, other than to demonstrate the
developer's ability to make changes to something that was working just
fine. That is the much-maligned Microsoft approach, and many of us
turned to Eudora to get away from the tether to Microsoft solutions.

In any case, I always find it curious when someone takes their time to
post a reply that does not address the question raised, but instead
suggests that someone should install different software.

Why not ask why the user doesn't switch to Microsoft Outlook or
TheBat? Must someone really post the (to my mind obvious) reasons
why they don't want to use a less workable, and drastically different
interface in order for his question to be deserving of a response?

And you wonder why IT guys have such a reputation for being obnoxious
jerks?
From: Ajo Wissink on 16 May 2010 12:57
On Sun, 16 May 2010 09:25:02 -0700 (PDT), Elaine
<kevin95610(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Eudora 6.2 has more and better features than the later releases, and
>has them in the places that people who have been using Eudora for many
>years have become accustomed to finding them.
>
>Inexplicably, later releases of Eudora began to do away with useful
>features and altered the interface in such a way as to make it
>annoying and frustrating to anyone who had developed "muscle memory"
>over many years for the way it's been done from the start.

Would you please elaborate a bit about which features were abandoned
in later versions and which parts of the interface have changed?
From: C A Upsdell on 16 May 2010 16:01
On 2010-05-16 12:25, Elaine wrote:
> On Mar 20, 7:02 pm, Don Wiss<donwiss(a)no_spam.com> wrote:
>> I have 7.1 installed in Win-7 64 bit Pro and have no problems. Why are you
>> using 6.2?
>
> Eudora 6.2 has more and better features than the later releases, and
> has them in the places that people who have been using Eudora for many
> years have become accustomed to finding them ...

> And you wonder why IT guys have such a reputation for being obnoxious
> jerks?

In all fairness (and I'm not someone who gives specific Eudora advice,
so I'm not one of the jerks you are addressing) all versions of Eudora
other than Eudora 8 were produced before Windows 7, and many versions of
Eudora appeared before Windows Vista. If someone has a problem with
Eudora, therefore, it is not entirely unreasonable to suggest that a
newer version of Eudora may work better with a newer version of Windows.

From: John H Meyers on 17 May 2010 16:02
On 5/16/2010 11:25 AM:

> Eudora 6.2 has more and better features than the later releases

Here are the "Release Notes" for the final version (7.1) of "Classic" Eudora,
documenting everything that was improved and added since version 6.0:

http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/windows/7.1/RelNotes.txt

Note that absolutely nothing was dropped, while much was fixed, improved and added,
thus version 7.1 (the final version) has more and better features than any other version.

> Inexplicably, later releases of Eudora began to do away with useful features
> and altered the interface

It is possible for someone stumbling upon so-called "Eudora 8,"
and neither reading about it nor recognizing it,
to not realize that "Eudora 8" is actually Thunderbird,
a bit modified from the version released by Mozilla,
but containing no part of the original "classic" Eudora.

This was done per a plan first announced in October 2006:

Press Release
http://www.eudora.com/press/2006/eudora-mozilla_final_10.11.06.html

FAQ
http://www.eudora.com/faq/

"Thunderbird 3," upon which "Eudora 8" is built,
was itself long delayed, finally released only a few months ago,
after which one better "Eudora 8" beta followed:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases

> I always find it curious when someone takes their time to
> post a reply that does not address the question raised,
> but instead suggests that someone should install different software.

It's the best we obnoxious I.T. jerks can do,
to try to help people whose "classic" Eudora is so far out of date
that it lacks all the improvements of completely compatible version 7.1,
which itself may immediately fix a significant group of old problems,
as well as provide many fine and useful extras.

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