Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:56:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: pechter@shell.monmouth.com, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL client software Message-ID: <199602291756.KAA11831@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3449.825609835@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 29, 96 05:03:55 pm
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> > Don't laugh. Terry's right. > > > > There's a lot of people who boot dos/windows just to get to their AOL mail > > account. For a while it was the only private internet mailbox I had since > > work was very intermittant (the US Army must hire net admins from the > > US postal service). > > Well, if the market is there, who's going to debug their protocol ? Someone needs to offer them to do a UNIX port, with the provision that AOL provides their source code for the port, and the resulting distributed version are binary-only (per their ubiquitous floppies). AOL might even hire you to do the job for them. They *must* be feeling pressure from the Compuserve client that works over the Internet, NetScape, and products like "PointCast". Plus half their business runs on a UNIX/Cisco backbone (they own a lot of providers, and that number is increasing). You wouldn't have to doc the protocol unless you wanted to do a server, and AOL is probably not interested in helping something like that. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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