On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 20:16:20 -0500 Robert B. Waltz wrote... >On 8/3/00, Leif Silli wrote: >[ ... ] >>My little problem is this, Fred: I don't understand what your decision is. I would like you to draw up some examples of what should be concidered transgressions and what should be concidered allowed. How could you know that NW in year 2000 should be able to read emails delivered as files in the Finder when you opened your list back in internet stoneage? Yet, that's what has happened. If this is supposed to be the kind of list you say, your ban on discussing this issue here makes my wonder what you concider on topic. >> >>Since I can't see the logic here, you better give some examples or work your house tidying idea better out. (Especially I wonder if you makes any difference between >> >>In my view NE is clearly on topic. Another issue is that it take up so much space right now that. So perhaps it would be good -for that reason- to make another list. >I think the example is quite obvious: If it relates directly to using >NisusWriter, it counts. So a question about "How do I use Nisus >to get NESY to do such-and-such?" is perfectly valid. If the >question is purely about NESY, though, it's irrelevant. Thank you for taking my question seriously. I am glad to hear that discussing email macros should be considered on topic. Of course there are certain sides about NE which deals just with how NE functions. But it is not at all that easy always. If you have that top macro for adding attachments but then NE doesn't do the job. Or is it the macro ? Or is it you that don't know the syntax of the NE logic ? etc. And also, if MLP goes wrong, then it is that program that goes wrong. So you won't be able to get NW files from it. Then we would discuss that here. Likewise, if once premier email goes to h*ll and stops pooring ouit NW email files, then one want to discuss that also... >Admittedly the question isn't always asked in terms of Nisus. >But the comments about ICWord do answer a Nisus question: >"How do I, a Nisus user, view Word documents?" Wise said. Of course. I agree. >It's a clear, simple rule, to my mind. (Truth to tell, I find your >example much harder to understand. How can a question about NESY -- >not Nisus and NESY; a question about NESY -- possibly be relevant >to a list about NisusWriter? Would you ask a question about Excel >on a list devoted to Word?) You simply have to ask yourself the question "How do I get to work with email as if they were NW files..." or something like that. There are of course things that are more or less NE vs. NW spesific. My point is just that NE is a tool for letting one work with email in WP's. It is not for letting you work with email as Excell sheets. Just like icWOrd is for non-Word users is NE spesificly for those that want to use their WP for mail. It is not a full fledged standalone emailer. I also think that part of the heat around this is caused by different ideas about what a WP should be used for. This said, I think that it might not have been so bad if we could have had a separate sisterlist for NE. It should be a NW & NE list. Leif
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