SL's response to all inquiries re: Readspeaker voices

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I can't tell if you're responding to my post or not, but much of what you said has already happened with respect to Mozilla and its relationship to Thunderbird, and Thunderbird is still here.

When you say you aren't using an email client, I wonder how you're participating on these email lists. I assume it must be because you're just using a web interface. The statement that you don't get the point of an email client doesn't make any sense to me at all. The point is the same as it would be for any application. Of course, you could use a web interface to read your mail or take notes or edit a document but when using an application you skip the web interface layer and you get more direct access to the features of the applications with things like short cut keys, menus and so on.

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Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

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I don't use an e-mail client, be it Thunderbird or something else, and don't really get the point of them, but best I can tell from a quick Google search, Mozilla has been treating Thunderbird like the proverbial red-headed step-child for nearly a decade and yet it remains the dominant graphical e-mail client under Linux best I can tell, retaining a sizeable number of users even among those who have ditched Firefox in favor of Chromium. The future is hard to predict, but I have a feeling that, even if Mozilla drops their involvement altogether, the worse that's likely to happen to Thunderbird is someone pulls a LibreOffice, releases an initial version of a new client that's identical to the last Thunderbird version in all but name, and a new organization is formed to be the nominal owners of the fork.

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