kareina

I first really started using email regularly when I enrolled as a Master's student at UAF in 1994.( long explanation of why I wound up using Eudora and how I organized my mail therein )( followed by summary of minor issues that crept in to my use of that program over time, no one of which is a deal-breaker ) But despite my slow down in email, Eduora was still my friend--it has an interface that I was very, very comfortable with, after more than a decade of use, upgrading regularly as it became appropriate, and the filters all did what I wanted them to do. I started hearing others criticize the program as obsolete, and after a time their web page announced that they were abandoning it--there would be no new upgrades or support. But it wasn't broken, so why worry? --it didn't need fixing. ( followed by other minor issues, no one of which is a deal breaker, but together have convinced me to try weaning myself from Eudora ) Why is this transition scary? Because I don't always have internet access. When I was in France last week I had wireless access, in theory, both at the meeting and in the hotel, but in practice the connection was iffy at best, and when actually traveling outside of Sweden I have no access at all usually, since I am not willing to pay for data roaming unless something really urgent comes up. Now if I have a question and want to look up messages that have come in since I quit downloading them to Eudora I will actually need to have internet access, and I cannot guarantee that it will always be there when I want it.