Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Networks considered harmful Message-ID: <7366@ficc.uu.net> Date: 19 Dec 89 19:11:14 GMT References: <8912190403.AA05387@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: > In practice, there is no standardization in E-mail packages. Bingo. Just standardise. No reason to glom an Email box onto a FAX box. Just sell a cheap modem with (say) 64K of RAM and a serial port, and let people use it as an Email answering machine. I have such a beast. Its got one problem: the user interface sucks. It sits between your existing modem and your PC and hides, which is fine, but you can't use it while it's waiting for messages, and you can't put messages into it (either for store-and-forward or for replies). Good idea, poor implementation. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com