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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:23:21 PST
From:	Jack Pfisterer <an479@lafn.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Off-line mail readers

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Attempting to respond to Paul D. Wirtz and Virginia R. Hetrick on
18 Mar 99:

W> Jstreet Mailer - Java runs on os/2 and can run on other os's.
> Post Road Mailer - What I use at home.
> PMMail - most pop
> Eudora light win16 ver free.

Thanks Paul - That encouraged me to look first at Post Road Mailer,
since I have one of the free copies of v2.5 they gave out. Looks
like there's a long climb of the learning curve ahead, but I like
what I've seen of it so far.

If it works out, expect I'll spring for an upgrade--either to PRM
3.0 or to Jstreet. Any feelings about their relative merits? I
presume that both are Y2K compliant.

The support.com domain probably will go down by Monday; but I hope
to be able to swith the SCOUG maillists to a new provider more-or-
less seamlessly.

H> The mailer that comes built into Netscape works just fine (in fact
> I'm offline as I'm reading this and writing the answer). I also
> recently got J-Street which works fine.

Yes, now that I'm having to take a closer look at it, it looks pretty
good. Been trying both it and Post Road Mailer (J-Street's OS/2
sibling).

A lot of my problem is in making the switch from the BBS structure to
the internet environment. Looks like a serious learning curve up
there.

Any particular likes/dislikes among the three--Netscape, Post Road
and J-Street?

BTW, thanks for your response to my scanner problems late last year.
It turned out that my parallel port would not support the scanner, so
Fry's got a second opportunity to sell that one.

Written on 22 Mar 99:

Well, the one-week notice from support.com turned out to be a 3-day
week. When I attempted to post the preceding messages I found the
telephone lines to support.com disconnected.

For the moment, I'm using Netscape Mail to post from an479@lafn.org.
Still working with Post Road, and have downloaded PMMail to look at.

The posting of this message also will discover whether or not my
SCOUG-GENERAL enrollment has been converted successfully.

It's been an interesting week.

Written on 26 Mar 99:

The previous posting discovered that the SCOUG-GENERAL enrollment was
not converted. Looks like it's working now, so will try it again.
Changing e-mail providers is such fun.

Jack P.

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