At 03:31 PM 10/1/2009, David McFarlane wrote:
Rich,
Hotmail was born circa 1997.
MSU's first Webmail client was born near that time circa 1998,
written by a brilliant student, Charles Henrich, under tutelage of Chuck
Severance. Both had UIs superior to the current
<http://mail.msu.edu>mail.msu.edu.
That's a matter of opinion. I found the ca. 1998 version of MSU web
mail almost unusable, whereas I find the current MSU web mail actually
rather useful from time to time.
I hope that the current MSU e-mail team balances your dislike of their
system with my liking of their system, and just call it a wash. As
a dance organizer once said while she collected feedback forms from an
event, she will always get complaints no matter what and so thinks she
did well enough if she just gets at least as many compliments as
complaints.
Just my $.02. I wonder what others think.
-- dkm
Might be more useful to talk in term of specific features and behaviors
that make a system "superior", unusable, etc. Who
knows, maybe we'd find out that some people have different criteria than
others for evaluating a system. That could lead to the
discovery that some people view the world differently from
others. Who knows what would happen if the news got
around.
John Gorentz