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- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 07 Feb 96 19:54:22 +0100
- Organization: DanaData Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1047.6611T1194T1119@aix1.danadata.dk>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- <4euo2t$ko6@news.uit.no> <mbs.485n@adastra.cvl.va.us>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: pppaarh149.danadata.dk
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- On 04-Feb-96 23:38:12, Michael B. Smith wrote:
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- >> 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.
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- > Mail and news are not the same thing. Never have been, never will be.
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- From a user's point of view I can think of no good reason to present
- them differently. It's a bit like saying that music cassettes are not
- the same thing as CD's, so therefore it makes sense to have separate
- amplifiers and speakers to play them through.
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- The only difference between e-mail and news is that e-mail is
- person-to-person, while news are distributed worldwide. And then there
- are mailing-lists ...
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- Only a programmer, especially one who has been on the Internet for
- years, insist on a solution based on completely different user
- interfaces for the two of them.
-
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- Henrik Dissing E-mail: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk
- Tranbjerg, Denmark FidoNet: 2:238/24.6
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