[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-05 12:02, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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.
>

The OpenVMS systems I manage does their work just fine (and
probaly better/cheaper then the alternatives). Managing mail
and news are not amongst those tasks.

Handling mail and news are everyday desptop tasks where
OpenVMS don't play any role today. Not amongst professionals
anyway, what some hobbyist does with OpenVMS becuse of some
historical interest is another thing, of course.