As the Apple Turns: Scene 362: Greatly Exaggerated (1/15/98)

Greatly Exaggerated (1/15/98)

Every Claris Emailer user heaved a sign of relief today when Claris officially denied the widespread rumors that the company's versatile mail client was being "retired." According to a short-but-sweet MacWEEK article, a company spokesperson says that "Claris has not ceased development of Emailer." The rumor apparently started with a quote by a developer in MacUser UK, who may have been misunderstood.

AtAT is happy to hear that development of Emailer continues. Those of you who use Emailer understand why; those of you who don't should give it a try. Emailer grabs our mail from five POP mail accounts and three AOL accounts, color-codes AtAT feedback and advertising requests, automatically files listserv mail in appropriate folders, labels obvious spam bright pink, sorts by date, and allows us to read all of our mail from these various and sundry accounts in a single inbox. The thought of living without Emailer makes us shudder; indeed, the notion of actually having to use the AOL client software again just to retrieve our email from those accounts makes us break out in a cold sweat. (We used to wake up screaming from nightmares in which faceless men crawling with bugs merrily chirped, "You've Got Mail!")

Of course, this news would become moot if the rumors about Netscape possibly buying Home Page and Emailer are true, but obviously if Netscape were to buy Emailer it wouldn't do so just to let it die. So regardless, we're happy to see that Emailer's here to stay.

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The above scene was taken from the 1/15/98 episode:

January 15, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

360: Bigger Than Jesus (1/15/98) It's no secret that just about everyone and their mothers want Steve Jobs to take the position as permanent CEO of Apple, but last quarter's profit seems to have stoked the fires a bit. Larry "Blabbermouth" Ellison was his usual unguarded self when he spoke about the subject at last week's MacWorld Expo...
361: Ready for Prime Time (1/15/98) Several sources, including MacInTouch and MacOS Rumors, are reporting that Mac OS 8.1 has gone "golden master," meaning that it has reached the point where it is ready for release. We should expect to see the CD-ROM version within a few weeks, and an internet-downloadable version sooner than that...

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