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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: RedRyder Question
Summary: ol'Red she aint what she use to be..
Message-ID: <40@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 17:58:25 GMT
References: <423@motbos.UUCP> <1254@cps3xx.UUCP> <211@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <211@bridge2.3Com.Com> ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger) writes:
     | The Latest version of Red Ryder is
     | still 10.3. But Red Ryder 11 will probably begin beta
     | testing in a few weeks for a release early next year
     | sometime with a variety of new things I would suspect
     | knowing Scott....

Hmm, pardon me for saying this, but I was one of the many who was suckered
into the 10.0 upgrade, with the promise of icon oriented interfaces etc..
I believe the upgrade promise said something like "the whole ball of Mac
wax..".  Basically the upgrade was little more than a maintainance fix,
with a few minor enhancements, and crippling throughput problems.

With my past experiences with RR, I am left highly doubtful that a RR11
will be much enhanced over rev 10.3.  I would love to see RR do what it
was originally invisaged as doing.. but if it does, I think it will be too
little, too late.

I think this is a real pity, as Red was once one of the best comms
programs available for the Mac, but has staggered terribly, while Mac
communications entered another realm.

Scott Watson, with RR10, promised what SuperMac/Lamir delivered in
Acknowledge.

Quick Plug for Acknowledge:
Acknowledge is truly a giant step in Mac telecommunications.  I've
developed my own interface to our Xenix e-mail system with it, including
batch mail, reading mail with a double click on a subject line, custom
dialogs, notification manager alerting to new mail arrival, the works.

Yes, Acknowledge is a whole lot more expensive than ol'Red, but for the
functionality that I've developed with it, it's worth the price.

     | -- Norm Goodger

Stu.

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