[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[John Wallace]

On Aug 5, 11:02 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm schrieb:
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> > On 2010-08-04 22:29, Bob Koehler wrote:
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> >> In article<j9ydnYP0n-mjH8TRnZ2dnUVZ_qmdn... at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
> >> Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>  writes:
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> >>> 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!
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> >>     What's so wrong about reading a VMS news group on a VMS system?
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> > Maybe that VMS lacks the (proper) tools ?
> > Maybe that VMS isn't the best platform for
> > office apps like news-readers ?
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> 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.

Any technologist or even any craftsman or even any car fleet operator
(etc) who believes that there is one universal best tool (or even tool
family) that fits all requirements needs their head examining and
should immediately be disqualified from serious consideration for any
real work.

Afaict it is only in the world of IT that the insanity of "one tool,
one supplier, one ecosystem, any business, any application" has become
widely acceptable.