[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <cRo6i+u8Vs4y at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <0MadncSb-oMSld_WnZ2dnUVZ_jhi4p2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> 
>> Outlook Express?  Maybe it's not properly called "native" but it ships 
>> with Windows.  I've seldom used it for anything.  For years I used 
>> Netscape mail and Thunderbird for the last few years.
> 
>    Only the client ships with Windows.  It's unuseable without someone 
>    buying and setting up the server.

What's your point?  Were you expecting a server on the desktop?
Of course, the same is true of any of the other email systems.
There are MTA's and User Programs.  One expects to find the User
Program on the desktop but without someone providing the Server
end it is really pretty useless.  Outlook is no different in this
respect.

bill
 

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