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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: 17 Feb 1996 20:23:39 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Message-ID: <4g5dgb$i43@news.uit.no>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
- <4fkv8l$6dg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <580.6616T769T1391@mailbox.swipnet.se>
- <19960216.7A76940.A440@mother.com>
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- In article <19960216.7A76940.A440@mother.com>,
- dfraser@mother.com (Dan J. Fraser) writes:
- >Thor's terminology is NOT standard or correct. The internet is NOT a BBS.
- >Newsgroups are NOT 'message bases.' Articles are NOT 'messages.' You
- >don't 'download' your 'message packet.'
- >
- >These are just throwbacks from Thor's legacy. It seems to be more of a
- >hacked-up QWK reader than an actual piece of news/mail software.
-
- Because of the terminology? Sorry, you are mistaken. Thor itself doesn't
- know the difference between a BBS and the Internet, everything type spesific
- is handled by the import/export modules. We have so far chosen
- to use the same names for newsgroups/areas/conferences etc. In the future
- we might make those names dependent on type (Even though that means a less
- consistent program)
-
- BTW: The word bbs does not appear in Thor anymore, we call it "system" now.
-
- >Dan J. Fraser -- dfraser@mother.com
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