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- Path: io.org!usenet
- From: lemetro@io.org (Le Metropolitain)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 21:22:30 GMT
- Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416 363 3783)
- Message-ID: <2006.6588T426T1560@io.org>
- References: <jdj4tucisa0.fsf@neppari.cs.hut.fi><1285.6578T208T1289@ipacific.net.au><jdjohsjpvrz.fsf@ritsa.cs.hut.fi>
- <970.6586T570T936@io.org> <19960114.7291480.F968@dmz.medstroms.se>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: dyna-5.net7d.io.org
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
-
-
- >> Time maybe for another opinion. I am a businessman (I am the co-owner
- >> of a small French community newspaper) and most of my time is spent
- >> either on the road or in front of the computer.
-
- > What has that to do with it?
-
- It has to do with the fact that I do not have any free time to waste
- figuring out 100 and 1 different environment variables and install other
- support programs.
-
- >> But mostly, I do not want to waste time figuring out how to install
- >> a piece of software. I'll read the manuals and take the time to
- >> learn how to use it.
- >> But how to install it?
-
- > Yes if the only programs that you actually want to use is
- > hard to install you have to do that. And THOR is not the answer
- > to my, and several others, prayers. SO we don't like THOR, and it
- > doesn't matter if it is easy to install or not.
-
- A program that allows someone to read and post both EMail and News
- quickly and efficiently is the answer to a lot of prayers.
-
- >> I wasted lots of paper printing the instructions for various E-Mail
- >> programs and NewsReaders until I came upon Thor. Let me put it to
- >> you all this way... I am voting with my money: I sent my registration
- >> fee by registered mail yesterday.
-
- > Thats your choice.
-
- For the folks who write shareware, I bilieve it must be the kind of
- vote that counts the most.
-
- >> Some people complained here about the program not being intuitive,
- >> etc. etc. Well, my wife who is not that hot on spending time
- >> learning new software (she does not care about why and how things
- >> are done, just that the program does what it is supposed to do)
- >> took to it very quickly and finds it very easy to use (quite a
- >> compliment coming from her).
-
- > Good for her. I find it somewhat misdesigned. I don't like
- > it and think it is ugly and should be designed from the beginning.
-
- You might consider writing your own then. If it's good enough, people
- will even send you a registration fee... while others will waste time
- putting it down on the net.
-
- Nicol Simard
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