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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 18:39:22 GMT
- Organization: CTS Network Services
- Message-ID: <1797.6634T584T2755@crash.cts.com>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no><1406.6621T1017T2219@globalxs.nl><4geft6$dbr@thunder.mgl.ca>
- <1582.6632T1161T1987@aix1.danadata.dk> <2515.6633T944T2415@xmission.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: gargoyle.cts.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
- On or about 28-Feb-96 23:21:39 Henrik Dissing typed the following words:
-
- > 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.
-
- 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:
-
- HD> "Because it was the one that I could actually figure out how to get
- HD> going!"
-
- Of course one could take that as characterizing THOR users as being too
- dense to figure out how to use the other programs. ;-)
-
- That's not why I chose to use THOR and I have yet to have a THOR Installer
- script work correctly.
-
- HD> Everybody who subscribed to the late THOR mailing list know this to be
- HD> true.
-
- I subscribed and it isn't 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,
- HD> SMTP, NNTP, mail-editing and news-editing than to download THOR and
- HD> run a simple installer script?
-
- That's not what he said. Try reading his post again. THOR _would_ be
- simpler and smaller and a better program for news reading if that was _ALL_
- it was designed to do. A program that is dedicated to a single function
- will typically be better _at_that_function_ than the jack-of-all-trades
- program.
-
- Phil
-
- pwright@crash.cts.com
-
-