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- From: sgrenander@NASAMAIL.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sven Grenander)
- Subject: Re: BlitzMail ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.170208.25797@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Sep9.210630.17541@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Sep10.203914.13076@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:02:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.203914.13076@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) writes:
- >
- > Sven Grenander writes
- > > Does anyone have an e-mail address for the Dartmouth folks who
- > > implemented this potentially nice application ? As it was version
- > > 1.5 (no "b" or "d") it looks like it may be ready for experimental
- > > use if one could just set up a log-in name and address file.
- >
- > I'll own up to writing the client, and my address is
- > Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (any person at Dartmouth has a similar e-mail
- > address, and that's one thing that makes BlitzMail very nice).
- >
- > BlitzMail isn't experimental (it's been in wide use here since 1988) but
- > it requires a lot more than a name and address file as a server. Our
- > current server setup is 7 NeXTstations with 9Gb of disk space, plus a Sun
- > 4/280 to handle bulletin-board functions. That handles a community of
- > over 11,000 users, roughly half of whom will sign in on an average day.
- >
- > We are interested in exporting the BlitzMail system to other sites, but
- > it's going to be a big job at first. If you're a Mac-intensive site with
- > an AppleTalk/TCP network, a patient sysadmin, and users eager for friendly
- > e-mail then we'd like to talk to you.
- >
- > Jim Matthews
- > Dartmouth Software Development
- > Home of BlitzMail, Fetch, and lots of other neat stuff.
- >
- >
-
- A rather daunting server set-up, but then you have 3 times as many users
- as we have Macs (by the latest un-official [think they double counted somehow
- and gave us a total of 8000 whereas 4000 seems more reasonable] count in MacWeek).
-
- It still looks quite interesting and I'll follow up in private e-mail to you.
-
-
- -Sven
-
- PS Thanks for Fetch !
-