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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hobbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Z-MAIL 3.0 demo for *BSD ? Date: 04 Mar 1994 17:08:44 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Mar4170844@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <CLnn4C.17t@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <2kghv4$b5m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <hastyCLqrE3.43q@netcom.com> <CLt7tq.CJI@aib.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: dwex@aib.com's message of Sat, 26 Feb 1994 02:20:14 GMT In article <CLt7tq.CJI@aib.com> dwex@aib.com (David E. Wexelblat) writes: If people are interested, I suggest they approach the company about it. They may be receptive. I have already done this several times in the past (starting about 6 months back and as recently as a few weeks ago). For those that don't know, Z-Mail is derived from MUSH, a free software package from days gone by. The company is run by Dan Heller. Yes, they guy who wrote the O'Reilly Motif & XView books. Former moderator of mod.sources (I believe). Yup.. Dan's feeling is that while this would be neat (and I believe there's considerably more impetus for a Linux port first), it's simply down to a question of time and resources. I've even offered to set up the machine and do his BETA program for him (as I've done for ParcPlace), but I think that he's a bit leery of getting sucked into a morass for which there's no clear financial gain. So, bug him if you wish, but it won't be anything he hasn't heard before! :-) Jordan