Re: Suggestions

[Philip Rhoades <philr mail austasia net>]

Yep - see the OGS project for getting everything to talk to everything . .

>But I think making a progam which combines typical messaging protocols,
>like E-mail, news, AOL, ICQ, ... can be done very efficient with compact
>code. Perhaps with plugins?
>You have to see that for each type of protocol everything is about the
>same, except the communication layer which is a rather small interface.
>
>But of course, only messaging stuff. I don't want to see spreadsheet
>support in my mail reader!
>
>On 2001.04.26 14:09:10 +0200 Maria Pinjanainen wrote:
> >
> > On 2001.04.26 14:47 Daniel Foster wrote:
> > > > > > - Newsgroup support
> > > > > I am strongly against this.  Balsa is an *e-mail client*, not a
> > > > > newsreader.  The two should be kept seperate.  Check out Pan.
> >
> > > The nature of news and e-mail is fundamentally diffferent.  E-mail is a
> > > one-to-one communication (essentially, ignoring mailing lists), and
> > news is
> > > a big many-to-many thing.
> >
> > I agree, too. We don't need big monsters. If someone needs all-in-one,
> > there is
> > Netscape-Mozilla and Star Office. ;-)
> >
> > maRia
> >
> >
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