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In article <10576@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>,
wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
> 
>      I have read many postings from various people who would like to send and
> receive mail, and read news on their mac. [talks about Phil KarnUs stuff]
> ... however, by
> merging the KA9Q sources with the NCSA Telnet sources, this could be fixed. 
> And I wouldn't have to use these lame mainframes to send mail anymore.

Yeesh.  Unfortunately, the programming interfaces for Phil's & NCSA Telnet
don't much resemble each other.

There are some commercial products in the works, as well.  We showed a
preview of ours at MacWorld Expo/DC, and in fact I am posting this very
message from my Mac II.  We expect to start shipping non-beta copies in,
say, mid-June (i.e., about the time of Summer Usenix...pure coincidence,
I assure you :-)).

Mail in particular is not as easy as it seems, however.  Sending is 
relatively easy, but receiving gets a little thorny, especially with
KIP/KSTAR style dynamic IP address assignment, the fact the Macs tend
to be turned off in at night, and so on.  A mailbox server is a good
approach, but there are so many standards to choose from :-) (POP2, PCMAIL,
IMAP2, FTP (hey, it could be done), etc.), and all of them so far are
more-or-less copylefted, which poses a problem for commercial distribution.

If last year was "The Year Of The Network," will this year be"The Year Of
Real Macintosh EMail?" [1/2 :-)]?

--
Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.UUCP>