Re: Use Plain Text Viewer?

Hello Thomas,

You wrote:

>>> So, I ask again... is "Use Plain Text Viewer" implemented as anything
>>> other than a menu selection that shows whether you selected it or not
>>> but nothing else? If so, is there some configuration option that somehow
>>> overrides it? If there is, that seems like a mistake, since the plain
>>> text viewer should ALWAYS be a plain text viewer, for security and
>>> stability if no other reason.

>>> Help?

>> I confirm that nothing happens in this version when clicking on View /
>> Use plain text viewer. I will check on my home computer with the latest
>> beta version, and I copying the beta list in for checking.

> I confirm no effect in 11.4.2.1 either.

I like written communication, and have always felt that if words are
properly chosen and well used in context, anything additional (colors, fancy
fonts, graphics/pictures, etc.) is just unnecessary noise. Hence my
long-standing general dislike of HTML for word-based communications.

When I discovered TB!, with its very well implemented plain text *and*
extensive options to deal with the written word (basic editing/formatting,
incorporation of encryption tools, macros, etc.), I was finally happy to
stop looking at other email clients. I've been a loyal TB!--Plain Text--user
and advocate since v1.x.

Up until the moment Ritlabs decided to begin incorporating graphic emojis,
and eventually full-blown HTML, I was happy to explore the possibilities of
each new Beta version, and even put up with occasional irritating bugs along
the way. Now? Not so much.

Over the years, with evolving computers, tablets, and phones, I've kept a
close check on how much of my time I'm willing to devote to staring at
screens, big or small. I've maintained what feels like a relatively
well-reasoned approach -- as little time as possible staring at screens of
any sort, for any reason. This leaves me time to enjoy "living in the real
world" of actual sensory perception and participation.

When I decided to go for the "upgrade" to v11.x, it was more as a
continuation of my support of Ritlabs/TB! than having anything to do with
feeling the need for more features. Not only was I faced with bugs that I
continue to read about here, but also with what I considered a *very ugly*
Rich text/HTML presentation in the preview pane and full window message
screens. The rounded "graphic framing", the big buttons that got in the way
of everything (while disappearing visible header information, which I've
always found useful), etc. All "super ugly" and unnecessary as far as I was
concerned. Then there were the blank screens where email messages were
supposed to be visible, and the inability to return to "plain text". All
still happening, apparently.

I'm no longer a willing "Beta guinea pig". While I paid for the "upgrade" to
v11.x, I'm much happier having gone back to using v9.5.1. I'm reading and
writing in plain text, and when an email shows up, I can read it without
wondering why I'm staring at a blank preview pane instead.

Perhaps the shrinking human attention span and apparent "need" for
ever-more-noisy social stimulation via screens of every sort is the way of
the world now. If that's the case, I'm happy to remain in the "going
obsolete" category of human being who continues to play very old music on
very old instruments, prefers playing chess on a real board with an actual
human being sitting across the table, prefers paddling my kayak with whales
rather than watching them on YouTube. And I still prefer writing and reading
email in plain text.

I'm so happy to have grown up in a time before people only knew how to live
most of their lives "virtually", and without feeling the need to join them 
in that particular pursuit.

Happily living "IRL", as it were,

-- 
Melissa

TB v9.5.1

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