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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: GS+AFP Unix server
- Message-ID: <C1HAus.39G@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:42:28 GMT
- References: <1jr3i9INN16d@gap.caltech.edu> <C1EDDE.H42@utstat.toronto.edu> <ofN=h3S00WB5M7ZZBN@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <ofN=h3S00WB5M7ZZBN@andrew.cmu.edu> gregt+@CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes:
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- >
- > Hmm. I've gotta respond to this. You can't imagine how advanced
- >Unix mail systems are when it comes to doing anything easy,
- >interesting, etc... The Andrew Message System (AMS. I'm usin' it
- >right now) is waaaaaay advanced. Basically, a full multimedia mail
- >system. It's been in use for at least 4 years here at CMU (where it
- >was written). Probably longer than that. The graphical interfaces to
- >it are pretty darn decent. You can send text, graphics, animations,
- >sounds, hyper-stuff (click-here-and-see-cool-shit kind of stuff).
- >It's quite advanced. What else... uuh, footnotes in mail. Heh, you
- >can even imbed cool things like clocks (it's x:xx, do you know where
- >your brain is?). Just because your site is running the brain dead
- >mail crap that comes with the standard Unix installation doesn't mean
- >that that's all there is.
-
- You are missing the point. CMU has had an enlightened policy regarding
- computers for quite some time. There are Unix/Mach based mail systems
- that are very good. NeXT Mail is one, Andrew another and I believe there
- is something called Mime out there. All this is neither here nor there as
- 99% of the world of Unix is running standard mail and trying to cope with
- Sendmail.
-
- Let me make it clear. Unix can technical do a lot. The fact that it doesn't
- get implemented for most people is not technical, but political. I wish
- you'd read what I'm saying instead of responding to ghosts.
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- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-