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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Desktop Mail in the University Environment
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Date: 8 Feb 91 23:05:34 GMT
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At Northwestern University, we currently support two different mail 
systems for the Mac, QuickMail and Eudora.  I've worked very extensively 
with both of them for a long time now, and one of my main jobs in our 
networking group at Academic Computing and Network Services (ACNS) is 
supporting both of them for use throughout the NU community.  I have come 
to the conclusion that, in our environment, in most cases Eudora and POP 
clients in general are better than QuickMail and commercial local-area 
mail programs in general.  I would like to present my arguments in some 
detail here.  Although I know very little about IBM PCs, from what I've 
read and heard I think that many of my arguments apply to the PC world as 
well.

This is the first paragraph of a very long (26K) paper I wrote last night 
and posted to one of our local Northwestern newsgroups.  The paper is of 
general interest, but I felt it was much too big to post worldwide.

If you'd like a copy, you can get it via anonymous FTP to ftp.acns.nwu.edu 
[129.105.113.52] in the file pub/jlnstuff/desktop-mail.  If you can't FTP, 
send me a note and I'll mail you a copy.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu