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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2631)	2/12/2001 9:11:15 AM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 12247

This was clipped from today's issue of Fred Langa's free Langalist newsletter (http://www.langa.com). It is always interesting and often useful. Anyway, today he mentions his favorite e-mail client, Eudora (which, if you do not know, is published by Qualcomm.) -------------------------------- 1) What's The Best Email Client? A few issues back, in "Fed Up With Outlook/Outlook Express?" (http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2001/2001-01-25.htm#5 ) we opened a discussion on email clients. Let me briefly recap: Microsoft's Outlook Express is among the world's most-used email client applications, mainly because it's distributed free. It's a reasonably capable client, and can handle multiple email accounts, newsgroup activity and directory services. It even includes a lightweight contact list. But it's also limited in ways that range from the annoying--- such as a mandatory, always-visible ad-bar--- to the serious--- such as various security problems. OE also is confusing to some: For example, its mail folders are buried in a nonobvious part of the Windows directory tree where the uninitiated may fail to include them in backups. And some elements of OE's operation (such as the purging of old messages and the compression of mail folders) make it easy to waste inordinate amounts of disk space, and/or to retain copies of messages you thought had been deleted long ago. In other issues we discussed sites that can help you track down, identify, and resolve some of the problems with OE. One such help site: tomsterdam.com And I talked about Eudora, my personal choice for an email client. It's powerful, flexible, and resistant to many of the security issues that plague some other email clients. On the other hand, with each release, Eudora gets bigger and more resource-hungry. In fact, Eudora is a pig. A nice pig--- but still a pig. As we discussed all the above across several issues, many, many of you wrote in with your own suggestions and recommendations for great email clients. When I realized how many I was getting, I started sorting and collating them, and now have boiled the list down to the 10 most reader-recommended email clients---email apps that real people (your fellow readers) have used and found to be good. That list--- with descriptions in the words of the readers who made the recommendations--- is the core of the new Explorer column due to go live on the WinMag site today, midday (2001-02-12; UT-5). As always, that column is free: Just click on over to winmag.com . (If you arrive early, you'll see the previous column on "System Setup Secrets." In that case, just try again a little later.) If you want to try a direct link, once the column is posted, it should be at winmag.com . (If you arrive early, the link won't work.) Please click on over and check out your fellow readers' recommendations. You just might find a new email client that puts your current one to shame!

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2631)	2/13/2001 8:37:31 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

Maurice, The connotations of "punter" can be even worse. To me it meant player in the sense of person placing a bet. I looked it up in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary - The Webster's of Britain) . Punt It gives the boating definition first, then the footballing, and then "(At faro and other card-games) lay stake against the bank; [Non-US] (colloq.) bet on horse etc., speculate in shares etc...... Punter is defined verb relative to the various definitions of punt, but the last definition is "prostitute's client." This was new to me. You and I agree that Government's are right to auction spectrum. If the clients are buying spectrum, and Governments are agents facilitating that purchase, then.... Yes, "punters" is a cliche' used outside the US in financial circles to suggest the user is both knowledgeable and familiar with business - sufficiently so to be casual. I wonder if journalists would be so free with the word if they were conscious of the last definition. They often facilitate buyers and sellers meeting. Ashley