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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Z-MAIL 3.0 demo for *BSD ?
Date: 24 Feb 94 18:37:54 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2kghv4$b5m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In article <CLnn4C.17t@latcs1.lat.oz.au>,
>M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs4.lat.oz.au> wrote:

>>   I am subscriber of SysAdmin mag, and in the Jan/Feb issue this year,
>> there was a Z-MAIL 3.0 demo (by Z-Code Softwares Corp.) available for
>> ftp from : ftp.uu.net:/vendor/z-code/zmail/3.0. However, there is no
>> port for any of the *BSD, I wonder will the *BSD team be influential
>> enough to talk them into a port for *BSD ?

>Doubtful for the free ports since *most* folks are running the free
>version because it's cheap.  Those with $$ are running BSDI, so I could
>see the Z-code folks doing a BSDI port but not a port to the *BSD's. 
>There'd be little to no money in it.

Besides, they'd have to pry my cold, dead fingers from the keyboard
before they'd get me to use anything other than mh. :-)

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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