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- From: kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.misc,comp.sources.wanted
- Subject: Re: group mail software
- Message-ID: <185@ima.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 04:50:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.220409.41003@wap.oau.org>
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- Organization: International Messaging Associates, Menlo Park, California
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- In article <1992Dec10.220409.41003@wap.oau.org> bdixon@wap.oau.org (Bill Dixon) writes:
- : I am looking for some software to create and manage a "mail network".
- :
- : After trying a couple of times to describe what I want the software to do,
- : I think it would be easier to describe what I would do with it.
- :
- : My company is a member of a regional (and national, as well) user group
- : for the application software we are using. The user group provides a
- : directory of members, so if you have problems with the software, you can
- : call someone else using it, and ask them how they handle it.
- :
- : I believe that it would be much more efficient to do this through e-mail.
- : That way, I could broadcast a query to the user group, and anyone with the
- : answer could respond. I have mentioned this to a couple of people in the
- : user group, and they said it sounded like a good idea, but no one seems to
- : want to get it going.
-
- Actually, to me at least, this seems like a problem much better suited to
- news than mail. All you really have to do is to define your own top level
- group, and propagate it within your company or user group. Advantages are
- that the software and transports are already in place, can communicate
- individually through email, ..... , and all the other normal arguments for
- using news.
-
- Best Regards,
-
- Tim Kehres
-