Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Android email and Pluto Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:54:39 +0100 Organization: timil.com Lines: 61 Message-ID: <52c057a533tim@invalid.org.uk> References: <52bf0c4b94dave@davenoise.co.uk> <52bf123436see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <551725bf52.martin@blueyonder.co.uk> <52bf7f71c5bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <920082bf52.chris@o2.co.uk> <52bf91c00etim@invalid.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.18) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6126 In article , Chris Hughes wrote: > In message <52bf91c00etim@invalid.org.uk> Tim Hill > wrote: > > In article <920082bf52.chris@o2.co.uk>, Chris Hughes > > wrote: > > [Snip] > >> Because Pluto is a text database (which happens to have had added an > >> email facility added), whereas Messenger Pro is a real email client. > > [Snip] > > Pluto enables you to operate automated mailing lists, it manages > > distribution list subscriptions, and can perform Email forwarding. As > > well as all its textual database capabilities. > > MPro can handle fancy text emails. Meh. > Messenger pro (RISC OS) does email forwarding, distribution lists, So if I send SIGNON it will add me to a distribution list?! > it > does not run mailing lists. No. A Showstopper here. > But obviously you can filter mailing list > posts. I should hope so! > > M Pro =/= Pluto. > > That MPro is currently being developed is a bonus perhaps, but if we > > can hope for 000s more RISC OS users (on lots of new Arm devices) > > there have been hints that Pluto could still rise again. > So you think somehow we are going to get thousands of new RISC OS > users? Not really. The community isn't as friendly as it could be, and lacks a coherent portal. > It would need major improvements to the OS to bring it up to > date and the applications overall to stand any real chance. Where is > the money coming from? Good question and it does apply, though I think the subject was Pluto and not a perceived outdatedness of the entire RISC OS environment. -- from Tim Hill who welcomes incoming email to tim at timil dot com. * Share in a better energy supplier: http://tjrh.eu/coopnrg * Share in cheaper ethical telecoms: http://tjrh.eu/phone * Have a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ ... "What is decreed must be" Twelfth N, Act i, Sc.5