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- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: QuickMail vs Microsoft Mail
- Message-ID: <8200@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:28:35 GMT
- References: <BzD5n2.FH1@eis.calstate.edu> <1992Dec19.180102.8435@newssun.med.miami.edu>
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- Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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- In article <1992Dec19.180102.8435@newssun.med.miami.edu>
- jpb@newssun.med.miami.edu (Joe Block) writes:
- >cc:Mail has one major flaw. I got their demo, and it turns out that you have
- >to have a publically writable directory on your server machine. Anyone can
- >just delete the contents of the mail folder if they don't want someone to
- >receive an irate email they sent, and there is no unsend function to keep
- >people from figuring this out. Even if they do it out of ignorance/stupidity
- >rather than malice, the cc:Mail files seem too vulnerable to me.
-
- Also, cc:mail only permits the one address book for the network, centrally
- administered (not user-modifiable), containing all known addresses. In our case
- this would make an address book withover 5000 addresses (assuming we could find
- gateways to our Vax and IBM mainframe systems).
-
- When I asked about mail withing a department, the salesthing suggested a
- distribution list. When I asked about mail to individuals within a department,
- he suggested individual single-entry distribution lists for each person in the
- department.
-
- David Gutierrez
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-
- "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
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