Re: GS+AFP Unix server

[gregt+@CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson)]

philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:
> It is not irrelevant. Getting a good mail system is a joy and rare. That's
> why the NeXT is so nice to use, and why using Unix based editors for mail and
> news is a pain (which is why you saw a long line-> due to vi on an Iris
> running Unix and on the Internet). You can't imagine how far behind Unix mail
> systems are when it comes to doing anything easy, interesting, etc...In 
> principle TCP/IP may have nothing to do with it. In practice, everything 
> surrounding Unix (and as a consequence anything (TCP)/IP based) is political.

  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.

  Oh well, I guess that's my post for the evening.

  Wow.  For those of you who knew and/or cared, it wasn't my Zip that
was crashing my system.  It wasn't my RamFAST that was crashing my
system.  It wasn't my motherboard.  It was my damn SCSI cable.  That
thing's been giving me problems for a hell of a long time, but I just
replaced it, so I'm back in business.

  Bye now.

		-Greg
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