Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ccncsu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sendmail - where should it pick up the fullname from Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 00:37:00 GMT References: <1991Apr17.164751.1864@ohm.york.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Lines: 30 In article <1991Apr17.164751.1864@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes: Also, am I alone in thinking that although NeXTmail is great fun, it is not as well designed in functionality as elm and then writes although elm can't handle sounds, files, graphics and fancy fonts, it does the job of providing a good mailer service much better than NeXTmail. One could only guess about your definition of "functionality". he then writes [Let the flame wars commence?? :-) ] One's favorite mailer is very high on David Letterman's top 10 list of "religious issues in computer technology" and will always generate a very tedious flame war. Sigh... such a waste of precious net bandwidth... and so unconducive to getting one's problems solved. Of course, if your users have no use for such trivial functionality as sonds, files, graphics, and fancy fonts, you could just port elm to your NeXT(s) and use it, neh? -- "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche