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- From: mike@larry.utah.com (Mike Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 08:17:02 -0800
- Organization: Stick on a String, Inc.
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- Kjell Irgens (kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no) wrote:
- : >subcribing/junking etc. I don't know what
- : >you mean by 'kludgy' Reply-To lines,
- :
- : Kludgy reply-to: lines in mail headers for people with dynamic IP-addresses.
-
- I don't see how this is a kluge... how do you suggest the problem be handled?
-
- : >> What "needs" do you have then?
-
- I've stayed out of this thread until now, but I can take it no more. :-)
-
- Thor is not the be-all end-all of news- and mail-readers. There are
- people out there (such as myself) who have setups for which Thor is
- completely inapropriate.
-
- I, for example, use Suck (on a Linux box) to pull down a newsfeed on the
- hour, and add it to the local news spool. Inn runs on this machine and
- serves the other macines (a PC, another Linux box and the Amiga) on the
- network their news.
-
- So if I want to read news on the Amiga, I want to do it online (why
- should I download news that's stored a few milleseconds away only to have
- it take up space on two hard drives?), I want my .newsrc to be a)
- NFS-mounted and b) a format which all the machines understand. This way,
- I can read news on whichever machine I happen to be sitting at at the
- time and keep a consistant database of what I've read and what I haven't.
-
- NFS-mounting the mail spool works for mail in a similar fasion.
-
- So if I'm going to use an Amiga newsreader it's got to
-
- a) grok a "standard" .newsrc
- b) be able to read news "online"
-
- In a mailreader I need
-
- a) ability to read from an NFS-mounted mailspool
- b) supports standard unix-style mailbox format
-
- Far as I know, Thor supports none of these. (Feel free to correct me if
- I'm wrong).
-
- Don't get me wrong- Thor is great and it has its use, but there are
- situations out there for which it is completely useless. I look at thor
- much the same way I look at Netscrape... it's pretty, yeah, but as a
- result of the everyting-but-the-kitchen-sink functionality the program is
- huge and slow. I'd much rather have one program to get the mail, one to
- read the mail, one to get the news, another to read it... etc.
-
-
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