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From: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: What we plebs can get from the STORE!.
Message-ID: <1866@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 17:27:36 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.1866
Posted: Thu Nov 19 17:27:36 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Nov-87 07:02:16 EST
References: <761@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: Well, something is better than nothing

True, we don't have access to much that we'd really like; I think the
single, biggest screwup is not offering some flavor of HDB UUCP for
$ale!  I *know* that I'd pay a **reasonable** price for a binary-only
license, and reasonable is in the range of a couple hundred $$ (if
absolutely necessary; it seems to me that AT&T would *want* all these
machines to talk to each other reliably, so we'd use lotsa phone
time...)

However, as far as mail utilities go, forget mailx.  You *can* get
Mail--the BSD code was done at a public institution with public $$,
even though the Regents of the Board still own the copyright--but the
ELM mail system far outstrips any of the other mailers I've seen
available; and it doesn't cost us much to run (in system resources) on
the 3B1, since we can do it in shared libraries...

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