simpsons@leland.Stanford.EDU (james disanto) (06/08/91)
I need your help to design an insanely great software application. A group of software engineers at Stanford is writing a Microsoft-Windows and MS-DOS based electronic mail application that will interface directly to both SMTP and MHS and will operate on many different commercial and public-domain TCP/IP stacks. We do not want to design yet-another SMTP mailer. We want to design a product that is truly, insanely, and undeniably great. In order to design a product that will be the best in its class, we would like feedback from potential users of the product to determine which features are most needed. We have no desire to build a neat toy with lots of complicated features that no one will use. At the same time, we don't want to leave out features that you have always wanted to have in a mail application but that no one ever included because they never bothered to ask for your opinion. Well, here is your chance. We are asking for your opinion. We have designed a concise, seven-question survey that can be answered in five minutes. If you are interested in participating, please send me a note indicating your interest and I will forward the survey to you. While all users are invited to participate, we are particularly interested in the thoughtful opinions of those who are in touch with the electronic mail needs of their organizations: project leaders, network administrators, mail administrators, and those who heavily use an existing mailer on a MS-DOS PC local area network (LAN). The target audience for this product is the organization that needs to interface with an SMTP gateway directly from a PC without using a dedicated gateway. If you would help to forward the survey to the right person in your organization it would be greatly appreciated.