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- From: mike@amy.utah.com (Michael C. Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 08:07:13 GMT
- Organization: Stick On A String, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4ev53h$2hn@larry.utah.com>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: reqf-054.ucdavis.edu
- X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0]
-
- Kjell Irgens (kjelli@hstud6.cs.uit.no) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- I don't know... personally, I rather like the reply-to lines. I suppose I
- could instruct elm to lie about my address and put what I put in the
- reply-to field in the from field, but why?
-
- : Thor is slow? Doing what? Compared tp what? It is big, I can't deny that
- : (Small compared to Netscape though)
-
- To be quite honest, I haven't tried Thor in a while (last time I used it I
- was doing the .qwk packet thing on a local BBS. It was great for that!), but
- I remember it being quite slow. Of course I'm running a stock 68000, so
- I'm quite used to things being slow, but Thor was almost intollerably so.
-
- Tin is much faster, and it lets me read news directly off my server, without
- any of this downloading business.
-
- Heh, you're right about being smaller than Netscrape, though. Come to think
- of it, ain't much bigger than Netscape. Amazing fact is that the entire
- Amiga OS runs in less memory than Netscape.
-
- : > 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.
-
- Probably because having one to write and one to read wouldn't be a natural
- division. News and mail, however, are quite separate, and deserve separate
- programs to handle them.
-
- Maybe some people want a newsreader-mailerader-web browser-shell-operating
- system-dishwasher-microwave oven all built into one, but I'll keep them as
- distinct appliances, thank you very much.
-
- If you could have Thor make coffee for you, I might change my mind... :-)
-
- In all seriousness, like I said before, I used Thor for a little while a few
- years back, and it was pretty nice for offline qwk packet reading (I
- eventually went back to QBlue for speed reasons), but the interface seems
- rather tied to that heritage nowadays.
-
- If you update it to suport real-time NNTP feed, and of course a standard
- ewsrc, and add unix-style mailboxes and SMTP (and of course the option to
- add a rely-to: line in the header if you haven't already) and I'd be more
- than happy to look into it again.
-
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