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- From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
- Subject: Re: QM vs Eudora/POP (was Re: QM vs MS Mail)
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:24:17 GMT
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- In article <C033KD.MDr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim
- McKay) wrote:
- > 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.
-
- Someone else told me 8000 for their QM network. Which is all very nice,
- but there are some 70,000 people in ph at UIUC alone. Eventually, I think
- you have to go to a text-based system; you just don't point and click
- through 70,000 names. And that's just ONE (albeit large) institution.
-
- > Someone (was it me?) once said that Eudora is like a VW Beetle and
- > QuickMail is like a Chevy Celebrity. I personnally like that comparison.
-
- I'm not sure what the heck that's supposed to mean. :-)
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- Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
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