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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 04:31:26 GMT
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
- Message-ID: <2325.6576T1226T1439@xmission.com>
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- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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- On or about 30-Dec-95 14:48:15 Osma Ahvenlampi typed the following words about
- "Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?". My reply is
- thus...
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- OA> In article <1152.6571T599T1450@icenet.no> pettern@icenet.no (Petter Nilse
- >>I'm sorry to oppose you, but from what I've seen in Voodoo, it doesn't h
- >>anything that THOR doesn't have too. Quite the opposite, THOR has a lot
- >>features not present in Voodoo. But Voodoo looks nice and it's
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- OA> Again, yeah, THOR has QWK, SOUP, Fido support, a news reader, and
- OA> whatever. Voodoo doesn't. Nor will. Thor also has hard config, ugly
- OA> GUI, and BBS bullshit coming at your from every corner. Again,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- What does that mean? Yes Thor supports all manner of BBS types but if you
- don't need them don't install them. The BBS support even comes in a different
- archive file. If you don't need it you don't even have to waste the time or
- money to download it.
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- OA> Voodoo doesn't. Maybe Voodoo really is inferior. ;)
-
- >>probably easier install than THOR. But if you want features, go for THOR
- >>and the MIME stuff in Voodoo has been present in THOR for several months
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- OA> "looks nice" and "easy install" are not features then, since Thor has
- OA> everything that Voodoo does? Maybe they're bugs.
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- OA> Sorry, just had to respond.
-
- OA> --
- OA> A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
- OA> Author of the Voodoo E-Mail reader | Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi
- OA> http://niksula.cs.hut.fi/~oahvenla/voodoo | http://www.hut.fi/~oahvenla
- OA> Co-author of the ClassAct GUI toolkit | http://www.pcnet.com/~caldi
- OA> Editor of Amiga Report Technical Journal | http://www.warped.com/~artech
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