[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> It seems that VMS mail is so old that its 
> design phase fell well into those mythical good old times.
> So no excuse here.

Unix is older.  The problem with VMS is that management decided that it
was to be relegated to a back room faceless server. Since the early
1990s, requests for improvements to applications such as Mail have not
been given priority/budget.

As a result, much of the "desktop" for VMS remains in the early 1990s
technology and has not kept up.


Also, consider the fact that one project that was done was to port
Mozilla to VMS. This provided VMS with a modern mail client (and NNTP
client) which did suspport the various text and binary encodings.

It is just a shame that the TCPIP software continued to break headers,
making messages unusable on Mozilla.