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- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: QM vs Eudora/POP (was Re: QM vs MS Mail)
- Message-ID: <8263@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:59:00 GMT
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- In article <C033KD.MDr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
- writes:
- >Supposedly unlimited. Of course I've personally never tested that so I can
- >just say that about 200 users works fine and with quick service. Argonne
- >National Lab has one of the largest QuickMail systems I know of and would
- >guess they have quite a few more users than that on their QM "Nameserver",
- >geussing at least 500.
-
- We have about 650 QuickMail users in our NameServers. We also have about 4,000
- mainframe mail users that we can contact via QuickMail. Their addresses can be
- looked up by our NameServers.
-
- >It is extremely awkward to run QuickMail on a PC that also needs to
- >run other protocols besides AppleTalk.
-
- The new version (3.0) of Farallon's PhoneNetTalk (now called PhoneNet PC)
- supposedly makes it easier to use other protocols along with AppleTalk. I
- haven't read through all the materials yet - I want to make it live with
- TCP/IP, probably the one from FTP.
-
- David Gutierrez
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-
- "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
-
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