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From: dkovar@bbn.com (David C. Kovar)
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Subject: Re: BBS User Interface Ideas Wanted
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Date: 17 May 88 12:55:25 GMT
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  I sent this directly to Andy but as it seems to be of general interest,
I'll post it as well.

  The Andrew system at Carnegie Mellon University provides mail and message
support. The system runs on various workstations (RTs, Suns, and uVaxes)
and is introduced to the entire freshman class each year. Last I saw of it,
it was very easy to learn for the beginner and quite powerful for the
expert. Just before I left, we started porting the mail and messages program
over to the Macintosh. (It'd already been put on to the IBM PC.) You might
want to contact CMU and see what sort of documentation they have on the
current system. I'm reluctant to hand out names of people at CMU that you
might contact but if they are reading this group perhaps they could provide
a pointer to documentation. Lacking that, I'd be willing to describe
the Mac interface as it was before I left.

-David Kovar
 DKovar@BBN.COM