[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Michael Kraemer]

Jan-Erik Soderholm schrieb:
> 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 ?

If I were a VMS advocate I would want to use this OS for all my IT work.
If the allegedly "best OS on the planet" can't properly handle
every day tasks like news and mail reading,
I'd forget about VMS altogether.