Actually, I think these emails have a lot to do with the fact that any
Windows user can download a binary and run it. In fact, these kinds of
messages (ie. clueless ones) are quite common on any project's mailing
list/newsgroup which has a Windows port. Reading some of Mozilla's
newsgroups can be quite amusing.
Of course, the cool thing about these emails is that AbiWord is
obviously being used by a market segment far, far different than any
of regulars on this list.
To get rid of these emails, we have to finish the dialogs. However, in the
meantime, might I propose a new way of handling incomplete features:
whenever the user tries to access an unfinished menu, AbiWord crashes;
they'll probably find that a more traditional, and less perplexing,
approach. Think about it-- how many emails have we gotten saying, it just
suddenly disappeared? It's probably happened a few times, but everyone
understands "that's what software does". But informational dialogs
explaining the current, unfinished status of the program? That's just
bizarre.
Justin