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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no> <1047.6611T1194T1119@aix1.danadata.dk>
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- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 06:25:48 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <1047.6611T1194T1119@aix1.danadata.dk> hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing) writes:
- >
- > On 04-Feb-96 23:38:12, Michael B. Smith wrote:
- > > 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.
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- Heh. I understand your opinion, and disagree.
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- This is a religious issue.
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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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- Spend some time in comp.mail.* with us sometime.
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- // Michael B. Smith
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