[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-04 22:29, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<j9ydnYP0n-mjH8TRnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>>
>> You are probably one of the ONLY two people here who insist on reading
>> mail/news on a VMS system.   Face it!  VMS has been on life support for
>> at least the last fifteen years!
>
>     What's so wrong about reading a VMS news group on a VMS system?

Maybe that VMS lacks the (proper) tools ?
Maybe that VMS isn't the best platform for
office apps like news-readers ?

>
>> Take a giant step into the twenty-first century!
>
>     And do what, use a late 1960's OS?  Or get happy with bloatware?
>

The funny thing here is that if you read news using Thunderbird
on a "PC" it's "bloatware", but if the same Thunderbird would
had been ported to VMS, it's OK...