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- From: kjelli@hstud6.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 04:25:01 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Message-ID: <4euo2t$ko6@news.uit.no>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- <Kevin_Phair.041x@bgi.internet-eireann.ie>
- <2186.6597T158T1665@stud.cs.uit.no> <4e5m1u$7l8@larry.utah.com>
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- In article <4e5m1u$7l8@larry.utah.com>,
- mike@larry.utah.com (Mike Lewis) writes:
- >: >subcribing/junking etc. I don't know what
- >: >you mean by 'kludgy' Reply-To lines,
- >: Kludgy reply-to: lines in mail headers for people with dynamic IP-addresses.
- >I don't see how this is a kluge... how do you suggest the problem be handled?
-
- Like Thor does it, using a correct From: header.
-
- >In a mailreader I need
- >
- >a) ability to read from an NFS-mounted mailspool
- >b) supports standard unix-style mailbox format
- >
- >Far as I know, Thor supports none of these. (Feel free to correct me if
- >I'm wrong).
-
- You are correct.
-
- >Don't get me wrong- Thor is great and it has its use, but there are
- >situations out there for which it is completely useless. I look at thor
- >much the same way I look at Netscrape... it's pretty, yeah, but as a
- >result of the everyting-but-the-kitchen-sink functionality the program is
- >huge and slow.
-
- Thor is slow? Doing what? Compared tp what? It is big, I can't deny that
- (Small compared to Netscape though)
-
- > I'd much rather have one program to get the mail, one to
- >read the mail, one to get the news, another to read it... etc.
-
- Your choice. Why not one to answer mail and one to read? One to write
- messages in amiga newsgroups and one in local newsgroups? I feel that the idea
- of combining news and mail is a good one.
-
- >mclewis@ucdavis.edu | \\ // | Chuckwagon! Whitestag!
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