[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

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.
> 

I think most try to use the best available tool for the job.  Sometimes 
it's VMS, sometimes another O/S.