Re: QM vs Eudora/POP (was Re: QM vs MS Mail)

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From: David Gutierrez
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:59

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In article <C033KD.MDr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay)
writes:
>Supposedly unlimited.  Of course I've personally never tested that so I can 
>just say that about 200 users works fine and with quick service.  Argonne
>National Lab has one of the largest QuickMail systems I know of and would 
>guess they have quite a few more users than that on their QM "Nameserver",
>geussing at least 500.

We have about 650 QuickMail users in our NameServers. We also have about 4,000
mainframe mail users that we can contact via QuickMail. Their addresses can be
looked up by our NameServers.

>It is extremely awkward to run QuickMail on a PC that also needs to 
>run other protocols besides AppleTalk.

The new version (3.0) of Farallon's PhoneNetTalk (now called PhoneNet PC)
supposedly makes it easier to use other protocols along with AppleTalk. I
haven't read through all the materials yet - I want to make it live with
TCP/IP, probably the one from FTP.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

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