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Changing The Bats! Name
 
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I love The Bat! and have for many, many years. Without question, it is the most powerful e-mail program available.  The Bats! is just phenomenal, with one exception, the name!

The Bat! is just a silly name and does almost NO justice to the program's sophistication. I imagine many corporate entities are turned away from the program simply because of the name.

Does anyone know if the developers ever consider changing the programs' name?

Thanks,

Ron
 
 
 
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hmmm, how is "thunderbird", "poco" or "outlook" better?

As corporate entities have only silly names to choose from, they may eventually decide to test the products :)
 
 
 
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I'd be interested to know how the name "The Bat" came into being 8)  
 
 
 
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Personally, I think Thunderbird, Outlook and even Poco sound much "better" thank "The Bat!".  

You know, I even feel "weird" when I tell people the name of my e-mail program is "The Bat!"!
 
 
 
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The Bat! is too old and in its way too well established to ever change its name.
Well, I use Voyager, sounds a bit better though a bit Treky :)
 
 
 
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It *may* be too old, but I'm not sure about being too well established.

In all my years of computing, except for this forum, I've never once met another The Bat! user, either in person or on-line.

Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure it's too old. I use a contact manager called "Time & Chaos". A while back they somewhat changed the program AND changed the name to something like "Intellect".

Ron
 
 
 
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AFAIK "Time & Chaos" is still "Time & Chaos", their app "Express Mail" was changed to "Chaos Intellect"...
 
 
 
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Well, yes and no. T & C is still available but they also Intellect. And from their site:

"We have an award winning contact manager called Time & Chaos, sold since 1991, and have taken all the features from it and added it to Chaos Intellect."

So, in essence they combined two previously separate programs, Time & Chaos and Express Plus, into a new package called Intellect.
 
 
 
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The Bat! is just a silly name and does almost NO justice to the program's sophistication. I imagine many corporate entities are turned away from the program simply because of the name.
It does not matter what the name of the program is, as long as it is the best e-mail client around - the most configurable and meets the requirements of a power user.
- in fact - as long as it is The Bat!  ;)
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Ps. the Bat! is very widely used client in Windows platform, the next right after microsoft's programs.  If you haven't met any the Bat! users except we here, you just don't know right people ;)

Ps 2. How does the name of the Bat! is related with "Configuring the Bat!" , in the first place?
 
 
 
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2 Rick G
The name of the program comes from the O'Reilly's book on e-mail protocols.

O'Reilly has a habit of decorating it's books covers with pictures of animals.

IT people often refer to those books by the animals, for example, the "TCP/IP Network Administration" is called "the crab book".

The bat was pictured on the cover of the book that inspired the Ritlab's team.
Edited: n.a. n.a. - 27 April 2008 03:35:33
winXP-SP3 Pro, the Bat! v4.0.38
 
 
 
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Thanks - I never knew that  :)  
 
 
 
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Thanks n.a. n.a. - that's too interesting.  
 
 
 
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:)
You are welcome!

I do have the crab book, but my favourite is the snail one.
Edited: n.a. n.a. - 27 April 2008 23:16:19
winXP-SP3 Pro, the Bat! v4.0.38
 
 
 
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Bats are the only mammals to have evolved true flight, and most species also possess an acute system of acoustic orientation, or echolocation. E-mail messaging is a kind of communication without seeing whoever you are communicating with.
 
 
 
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Hello,

TYhe problem with name change is just that people do not like change, plus and mose powerful the Bat has built years into becoming what they are the best that there is in the email business. Go ahead make comments but love them or hate them Microsoft is king and everyone knows the name!!

Long live the bat!! It's earned its reputation I for one would use NOTHING else

THE BAT RULES

Peter
 
 
 
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The BAT is the best!!
 
 
 
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The Bat is also the symbol of the Russian Secret Services... Affaire а méditer !

8)  
 
 
 
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I'm from the old IBM school of thinking: no cute names, BUT I like the uniqueness of "The Bat!", especially knowing that an appropriate O'Reilly cover inspired it.

Also I've seen many well known companies fade into oblivion after changing their names, it's usually a bad idea.
Edited: David Rinaldi Coleman - 02 July 2008 01:24:10
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Dave Coleman
 
 
 
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Recently, RitLabs posted a message on the homepage about the naming of The Bat!.  The message does NOT indicate that the O'reilly book inspired the name.
 
 
 
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