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- From: snapper@mgl.ca (Allan Purtle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 06:59:50 GMT
- Organization: MGL Systems Internet
- Message-ID: <4geft6$dbr@thunder.mgl.ca>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no> <1406.6621T1017T2219@globalxs.nl>
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- Remco van Hooff (rvhooff@globalxs.nl) wrote:
- : Hi Dan J. Fraser,
- : On 16-feb-96 12:01:47 you wrote about Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
-
- : DF> Thor's terminology is NOT standard or correct. The internet is NOT a
- : DF> BBS. Newsgroups are NOT 'message bases.' Articles are NOT 'messages.'
- : DF> You don't 'download' your 'message packet.'
-
- : Mind you, Thor's a *multi* *format* mailer. This means that you will
- : encounter some problems concerning some terms used on internet, FIDO and
- : all the other BBS mail formats, that are not named the same but mean the
- : same (more or less). All these terms need to be placed in one program
- : without referring to other terms for other mail formats.
- : I think that the Thor team has solved this problem very well.
-
- As usual the technically oriented developers of Thor have failed to
- recognize their target audience in their attempt to promote Thor as
- a viable Mail/News solution. Irrespective of the pros/cons of the
- design decisions implemented in the current incarnation, the fact
- remains that the target market is looking for something far simpler
- to resolve a specific requirement, as opposed to something attempting
- to solve every possibility by throwing in the kitchen sink.
-
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