info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (03/12/85)
From: Ronald A. Jarrell <JARRELLRA@VPIVAX3.BITNET>
Hear hear! I agree with all the complaints about VMS mail. We have a fairly
tight-knit mail network that a great deal of university business gets carried
out through. Many of our professors use Bitnet to do their correspondence
with their european counterparts in earnet. Using the JNet package we've
been able to use VMS mail for this by folling it in a different way each
release to be able to hand mail over to our VM, which can then do all the
work involved. I think it flatly ridculous that DEC put the obviously thousand
of dollars of time into redesigning VMS mail into such a blown up subsystem,
and still refused to admit the *possibility* that someone somewhere would
actually want to talk to someone who didn't buy a DEC system! But then what
else can you expect from c company that seems to enjoy competing with
itself. (look at TDMS and FMS for my favorite example..)
Ron Jarrell
Virginia Tech Systems Programming Department