[MlMt] Another question about rules

[Randall Gellens]

On 12 Apr 2025, at 5:31, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 2025-04-11 at 17:53:43 UTC-0400 (Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:53:43 -0700)
> Randall Gellens <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>>  For example, Mac Eudora had a couple of extremely helpful features 
>> with its rules: first, you could select a message and then 
>> option-click to open the rules window, and the rules that matched the 
>> selected message would be highlighted. Second, each rule showed the 
>> date when it last acted, which made it easy to delete or update 
>> obsolete rules.
>
> Isn't it amazing that in 2025 we are still using Mac Eudora to define 
> the norms for MUAs to meet? Modern MUA authors must curse Steve 
> Dorner, Pete Resnick, et al. for having set such high bars so early.

That made me laugh, but it is absolutely true that Mac Eudora was 
exceptionally well-designed for email power users.

There were a small group of very good engineers working on Eudora, not 
just Steve and Pete. I don't know which features came from whom.

--Randall