Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 04:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <1ln4szb.skzhggllmmyoN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1ln6831.2z5w5xg6ih76N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <1ln8c6i.cqya7ouzxojkN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402806274 29820 166.84.1.5 (15 Jun 2014 04:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 04:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22932 comp.sys.mac.system:60963 In comp.sys.mac.system Tim McNamara wrote, quoting me: > Doc does have something roughed in sufficiently to put up a screencap > video of it. Was there something else you had in mind? Yes, a program functioning well enough to be used by other people. MailMate was already at this point when the crowdfunding proposal was initiated. > > As well, MailMate's author is quite passionate about his user agent. > > As are the people maintaining slrn and tin. I may be wrong, but I'm > > not seeing the same intensity here. I can absolutely, positively say > > none of them is anywhere even close to as argumentative. > > Were they attacked as blindly and stupidly and persistently? No. But, Doc brought all that on himself. See the note I posted with message-ids, and reread all those arts and a few later followups if you don't believe me. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number