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From: tperala@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Tim Perala)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: User Interface Changes Between 2.2 and 2.3
Keywords: user-interface
Message-ID: <3264@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 90 19:27:17 GMT
Organization: U of Minnesota-Duluth, Information Services
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We use elm as our campus standard mail handler.

There are literally hundreds of students, faculty,
staff members, and administrators that use elm on
a daily basis. 

Our department, Information Services, has chosen
elm and provides training and support to all of
these users.

This "user inertia" has what has kept us from moving
to version 2.2 of elm, due to the (admittedly slight)
variations in the user-interface.

We have recently become aware of some nasty bugs in
2.1 that make us want to move to 2.2 as soon as 
possible.  This will require quite a bit of retraining.

My question is whether or not there are any changes 
in the user-interface between 2.2 and 2.3.  If there
are, and 2.3 will indeed be released within a few months
time, we would be inclined to put off a move to 2.2
and wait for 2.3

Can anyone please describe the type of changes to the UI
in 2.3 and tell me if it in fact will be released by
June.  (The last speculative date I saw was May.)

Thanks for any info.

Tim Perala	(tperala@ub.d.umn.edu)
Systems Programmer
Information Services
University of Minnesota, Duluth
(218) 726-6122