This issue is crawling with mice, with part two of Warren Magnus's overview of the USB mouse and driver market and this week's poll asking what sort of pointing device you prefer. Last week's poll about email clients merits additional discussion, and Adam briefly skims over the major offerings while examining the results. In the news, Aladdin releases StuffIt Deluxe 5.1.5 and 5.5, plus StuffIt Expander 5.5 and DropStuff 5.5. No issue next week!

Topics:

• MailBITS/22-Nov-99
• Aladdin Updates StuffIt Line for Mac OS 9
• Poll Results: Your Preferred Mac Email Client
• Pointing the Way with USB Mice, Part 2

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