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From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: UUCP for the mac? (was Re: Letter to Unix Today )
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.150025.11854@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:00:25 GMT
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In article <27025972.5B6@intercon.com> kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes:
>
>Doing a QM to whatever gateway does not equate to creating an entire    
>application.  You seem to think that because someone wrote some forms and
>a gateway for QM that this is gods gift to computing.  The level of effort,
>and by the way I am not putting UMCP/QM down just into perspective, of doing
>UMCP/QM does not in anyway approach the level of effort needed to do what
>these other folks have done.

I never said that UMCP\QM was God's gift to computing.  I simply said that
UMCP\QM provided the innovation of complete uucp to Macintosh connectivity (as
opposed to UUPC, which offered a kludgey, though useful, half-step).  That's
all that I'm trying to say.  I don't want to get into an argument about how
easy it is to create a QuickMail gateway (though I, for one, would rather
write a standalone application...); that isn't relevant.  Information
Electronics has provided a complete mail and file transfer solution for
linking Macintosh networks to unix systems and therefore to the Internet,
and that is NOT, repeat NOT, a negligible contribution.  Saying that all
that's involved is "writing some forms and a gateway for QM" demeans the
efforts of the programmers and designers by implying that this did not
involve significant effort.

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