[1977] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Fwd: Netscape mail privacy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Nov 3 10:15:00 1999
Message-Id: <199911031514.KAA29445@mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu>
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Nov 1999 08:47:44 EST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:14:49 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <4.1.19991103084445.00d308a0@po11.mit.edu>, Mike Barker writes:
>I don't really think this is a bug -- but it is a suggestion that the
>release team and cwis dev may want to consider.
Concurrance. I decided not to send it to suggest to avoid the politics ;-)
Silly me.
>One hesitation from my side is that I thought I had heard that nsmail
>is not really a supported way of doing things, and in fact has some
>problems?
Absolutely, it has problems and is not supported. That doesn't mean
we ought not make it work better if we can...
I do not think, however, that creating an nsmail directory is likely
to cause people to believe that we "support" netscape. I think that
any well-publicized script would imply support far more than creation
of an empty directory.
>Perhaps an alternative to making all new accounts have an nsmail directory
>would be a "setup-nsmail" script in a well-publicized place?
I think most people who use netscape mail tend to be the sorts of people
who don't read the documentation or pay attention much...
--jhawk
p.s.: Perhaps what we need is a "Netscape mail is not supported!!" window
that pops up the first time you use netscape mail (i.e. the first time
netscape-movemail is run).
