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From: edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Coordination for Elm 1.7 beta patches
Message-ID: <195@altnet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 13:31:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: altnet.195
Posted: Tue Oct  6 13:31:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 06:33:08 EDT
References: <906@bdmrrr.bdm.com>
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA.
Lines: 41
Keywords: Elm 1.7
Summary: If nobody else wants to coordinate, I will.

In article <906@bdmrrr.bdm.com>, shprentz@bdmrrr.bdm.com (Joel Shprentz) writes:
> The distribution of this version of Elm really does mark the end of my
> participation with the project.  I will not be able to work any further
> with anyone on this, including transforming this beta version into an
> actual release for Usenet via comp.sources.unix.  
> 
> Instead, I'd like to have one of the people recieving this release take 
> the burden upon themselves to take over ownership of the system (more or 
> less) and to coordinate the ensuing bug reports and later distribution of 
> the system.
> 
> 					-- Dave Taylor
> 

Well, so far I haven't seen a whole lot of people jumping forward to help
coordinate the Elm 1.7 release or bug fixes. Not to mention the continued
development of Elm. If someone hasn't already taken the task on, I'll be
more that happy to.

I'm running Elm on a large network of 68020 and 80386 based systems. Some
are running V.2, some V.3, I've even got one running System III. I've spent
a lot of time and effort personally to port Elm to these systems, and added
a few features which we need in house. I've also mucked around with the     
sources a lot to provide support for several different delivery agents, as
well as adding support for out propretary LAN. I'm currently working on
mods to get Elm running under V.3 as a client process, using a delivery agent
on a central host. (Next step is to add support for X, and DOS workstations).

As a result, I have gotten to know and like the Elm mail system, and want
to see it's continued development. It would be a pity to let Elm die on
the vine.
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