Re: GS+AFP Unix server

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

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