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In article <40@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes:
=>In article <211@bridge2.3Com.Com> ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger) writes:
=>     | The Latest version of Red Ryder is
=>     | still 10.3. But Red Ryder 11 will probably begin beta
=>     | testing in a few weeks for a release early next year
=>     | sometime with a variety of new things I would suspect
=>     | knowing Scott....
=>
=>Hmm, pardon me for saying this, but I was one of the many who was suckered
=>into the 10.0 upgrade, with the promise of icon oriented interfaces etc..
=>I believe the upgrade promise said something like "the whole ball of Mac
=>wax..".  Basically the upgrade was little more than a maintainance fix,
=>with a few minor enhancements, and crippling throughput problems.
=>
=>Yes, Acknowledge is a whole lot more expensive than ol'Red, but for the
=>functionality that I've developed with it, it's worth the price.
=>

As soon as the average Mac user can afford Acknoledge, it will be great
advance in Mac communications.  And I don't mean at the same price as 
(well, just for kicks and no flame intended) MS Word.
...stepping down from soap box...

I have to agree about Red Ryder though.  It lost a lot of the "Mac interface"
when it went to 10.3.  The whole menu and dialog boxes scheme needs to be
re-vamped and re-thought out again.  It gets very cumbersome to use at
times.  (On the other hand, it is still better than any other package out
for the Mac in it's price range).  In addition, I find that RR bogs down
at 2400 baud.  I didn't notice this at first until someone showed me 
2400 baud on VersaTerm Pro.  I am a Red Ryder Host sysop myself, so I
see both ends of Scott's creations.  He has really good ideas, but he needs
to work a bit on implementation.  Somewhere between his programming and the
end user, the interface gets lost.  I am constantly having to answer questions
about Red Ryder in my feedback on my BBS.  

No offense Norm, you and Scott are doing a great job, and I am sure that
you hear enough of this in the FreeSoft RT BB on GEnie, but since it has
floated over to the Net, perhaps FreeSoft will start to see that they are
lacking in some points where if they fixed them they could really command
the market in communications.  Despite my occasional gripes, Scott does
have some good software.


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