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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: 8 Feb 1996 21:17:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Message-ID: <4fdp94$d0s@news.uit.no>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- <4f6i1r$2q7@larry.utah.com>
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- In article <4f6i1r$2q7@larry.utah.com>,
- mike@larry.utah.com (Mike Lewis) writes:
- >: Thor is not ideal for 68000 users no. But face it, isn't it time to upgrade
- >: now? I haven't seen a 68000 Amiga for years.
- >
- >Well, you have now. Upgrade? I'd love to. Someone want to send me an '030
- >card for free? Problem is, as a college student I have to make choices:
- >rent or '030?
-
- Students in the US must have a pretty bad economy compared to us over here I
- guess :-) Get a part time job?
-
- >: Much faster what? Much faster reading one posting, yes. Much faster
- >: reading a newsgroup: no.
- >
- >Much faster, period. You have to remember- my news server is a Linux box
- >not ten feet from the Amiga. Downloading all that news, then reading it
- >is just pointless when the server's 10 feet of 10 MBPS ethernet cable
- >away.
-
- Well, OK. Thor is not the program for you. At least not yet. Thor is for
- people using modems mainly.
-
- >: You can add Reply-to: if you wish, even though it is meaningless. THOR works
- >: with mailboxes. Thor works with SMTP. Thor works with InetUtils if you want.
- >: Look at it again.
- >
- >So thor can open my NFS mounted mailbox, read my mail, then put it back
- >in in the same format as it took it out, so when I read mail the next
- >time with pine or elm or mail they won't freak out?
-
- Sure.
-
- >Working with InetUtils is a big plus as well.
-
- >If it can read news online via NNTP as well (and use a standard newsrc,
- >of course), then I might just have to check it out!
-
- This is not too high on the priority list.
-
- >mclewis@ucdavis.edu | \\ // | Chuckwagon! Whitestag!
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