Re: Spectrum Automated Mailer

[Joe Kohn <joko@SpamBeGone.FoxValley.net>]

Based on the deafening silence that has greeted the announcement of the
release of Spectrum Automated Mailer, I wonder if folks realize the
implications of SAM?
 
Until the release of the Marinetti TCP/IP stack, Apple IIGS users who
wanted to access and use the net, basically had one choice....a dial up
shell acct.
 
Marinetti provided a means for IIGS users to establish a PPP or SLIP
connection to the Internet. Since shell accounts are getting harder and
harder to find, Marinetti provided us with an alternative access route to
the net.
 
With a dial up shell account, the Apple IIGS essentially performs as a
dumb terminal, and whether you wanted to send/receive e-mail, surf the
net, transfer files or read newsgroups, you used your ISP's software to
accomplish any task you wanted to perform online.
 
With a PPP or SLIP connection to the net, anything and everything you
want to do on the net is done by running IIGS software that resides on
your computer, not on the ISP's computer.
 
A number of IIGS applications have been released to date that work in
conjunction with Marinetti. There's now IIGS software to surf the web,
and software that'll let you ftp files and telnet. There's even a program
(gsAIM) that let's you chat with folks who use AOL's Instant Messenger.
 
One glaring area that was lacking any IIGS software was in
sending/receiving e-mail.
 
That's where SAM fits in. It is a IIGS e-mail program that lets you send
mail through an out-going SMPT mail server, and to receive in-coming
e-mail from as many POP3 mail servers as you have accounts.
 
IOW, IIGS users now have one more Internet related program, a very
important one. People have been wanting an Apple IIGS e-mail program, and
now they have one in SAM.
 
I hope that simple explanation shows why SAM is such an important new IIGS
program, and if there are any questions about SAM, I'm more than happy to
answer them. 
 
Joe Kohn, Publisher of Spectrum Automated Mailer

http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko





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