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- From: eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Message-ID: <EqV3y*Lf2@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 07:15:52 GMT
- 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> <1047.6611T1194T1119@aix1.danadata.dk>
- Organization: Engineers in Exile
- X-Newsreader: Arn V1.03a
-
- In article <1047.6611T1194T1119@aix1.danadata.dk>, Henrik Dissing writes:
-
- >
- > On 04-Feb-96 23:38:12, Michael B. Smith wrote:
- >
- > >> 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.
- >
- > > Mail and news are not the same thing. Never have been, never will be.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Actually, CD players and tape decks are quite different. Few audiofiles
- will accept a CD player and a tape deck in the same box. Most prefer that
- their CD players are tape decks be manufactured by sepeate companies:
- each a speicialist in what they do.
-
- The real reason why news and mail should be seperate is:
-
- 1) They *can* be with neligiable loss in usability. Divide and conquer
- makes for better software sooner.
-
- 2) Mail is "hard". There is lots you can and should do with mail. Nobody
- covers all the bases. Nobody.
-
- 3) News is harder. Very few newsreaders qualify as "state of the art".
- Even the best news readers are far from perfect.
-
- I am quite skeptical that any one programmer or team is going to create a
- program that is satisifactory in both areas. For the forseable future,
- the mail and newsreading environments are going to be seperate tools.
- Getting both in one package means making compromises. Why compromise when
- you don't have to?
-
- > 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.
-
- Only a new user, who hasn't learned to use his tools to the fullest, would
- insist that they be together.
-
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