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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: 29 Feb 96 15:44:48 +0500
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- On or about 28-Feb-96 23:21:39 Henrik Dissing typed the following words about
- "Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?". My reply is
- thus...
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- HD> On 21-Feb-96 07:59:50, Allan Purtle wrote:
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- >> 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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- HD> You couldn't be more wrong. If you asked all THOR users why they chose
- HD> THOR as their e-mail and news handling application, the most frequent
- HD> answer would be:
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- HD> "Because it was the one that I could actually figure out how to get
- HD> going!"
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- HD> Everybody who subscribed to the late THOR mailing list know this to be
- HD> true.
-
- HD> Personally, I find your argument a little backward. How can it be "far
- HD> simpler" to find and install a suite of programs for handling POP, SMTP,
- HD> NNTP, mail-editing and news-editing than to download THOR and run a
- HD> simple installer script?
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- HD> And the fact that THOR is able to handle a variety of additional mail
- HD> formats does not add complexity to the Internet solution; all the
- HD> modules are external to the main program, so you just don't install them
- HD> if you don't need them.
-
- HD> My guess is you don't know THOR well enough to justify your patronizing
- HD> attack on it's designers and their capabilities.
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- HD> --
- HD> Henrik Dissing E-mail: hendis@aix1.danada
- HD> Tranbjerg, Denmark FidoNet: 2:238/24.6
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- You are absolutely right Henrik!
-
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