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- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 28 Feb 96 19:21:39 +0100
- Organization: DanaData Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1582.6632T1161T1987@aix1.danadata.dk>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no>
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- On 21-Feb-96 07:59:50, Allan Purtle wrote:
-
- > 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.
-
- You couldn't be more wrong. If you asked all THOR users why they chose
- THOR as their e-mail and news handling application, the most frequent
- answer would be:
-
- "Because it was the one that I could actually figure out how to get
- going!"
-
- Everybody who subscribed to the late THOR mailing list know this to be
- true.
-
- Personally, I find your argument a little backward. How can it be "far
- simpler" to find and install a suite of programs for handling POP, SMTP,
- NNTP, mail-editing and news-editing than to download THOR and run a
- simple installer script?
-
- And the fact that THOR is able to handle a variety of additional mail
- formats does not add complexity to the Internet solution; all the
- modules are external to the main program, so you just don't install them
- if you don't need them.
-
- My guess is you don't know THOR well enough to justify your patronizing
- attack on it's designers and their capabilities.
-
- --
- Henrik Dissing E-mail: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk
- Tranbjerg, Denmark FidoNet: 2:238/24.6
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