FW: [Pmail-cz] I'm... overwhelmed.

Čtvrtek Prosinec 2 06:14:51 CET 1999


> -----Původní zpráva-----
> Od:	Jiří Kuchta [SMTP:Kuchta na dean.fee.vutbr.cz]
> Odesláno:	1. prosince 1999 13:35
> Komu:	pmail-cz na fee.vutbr.cz
> Předmět:	[Pmail-cz] I'm... overwhelmed.
> 
> 
> -------  Následuje předaný dopis  -------
> 
> Priorita:       normal
> Pošt. program:  Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b)
> Datum odeslání: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:17:58 +1300
> Odpověď kam:    Pegasus Mail for Windows Discussion List
> <PM-WIN na BAMA.UA.EDU>,
>                 David Harris <David.Harris na PMAIL.GEN.NZ>
> Od:             David Harris <David.Harris na PMAIL.GEN.NZ>
> Organizace:     Pegasus Mail, Dunedin, New Zealand
> Věc:            I'm... overwhelmed.
> Komu:           PMAIL na BAMA.UA.EDU
> 
> On Monday night I sent out a rather doomed-sounding e-mail message
> to the public lists, asking whether Pegasus Mail is still needed, and if
> so,
> how to go about assuring its future.
> 
> What can I say? I was unprepared for the response, and have been
> quite overwhelmed by it.
> 
> One person told me to stop whining. Two people basically told me that
> continuing to support Pegasus Mail was a waste of time because it
> was inferior to everything else they'd used. But some two hundred and
> thirty people so far have told me to carry on, and the expressions of
> support have ranged from placid to passionate, with every shade in
> between. I can't really express how this makes me feel - but suffice it to
> say that any doubts I had that there's still a need for Pegasus Mail have
> been pretty effectively dispelled.
> 
> An enormously gratifying number of people offered their financial
> support; the most common question was "how much would your
> proposed support consortium cost"? Rather than trying to answer this
> on the lists and clogging the mailboxes of people who are not
> interested, I have prepared some documents describing the scheme
> and its pricing, including an order form. If you are interested in
> participating in the support consortium project, please send any
> message to:
> 
>    faq-consortium na pmail.gen.nz
> 
> This will retrieve an automatic reply containing the documents. As part of
> the web page redesign currently in progress on our web site, these
> documents
> will also eventually become available via the web as well, but for now
> they
> are only available via e-mail.
> 
> I was touched by the number of individual users offering their support
> for Pegasus Mail. Realistically, the support consortium is aimed at
> sites with multiple users, but individual users can still show their
> support by purchasing manuals or using the registration option if they
> wish. Thank you all, though - I appreciate every offer of support.
> 
> A number of people offered their views on things that could be done to
> improve both the product itself, and the level of finance it generates -
> please accept my thanks for this, and an assurance that I and my team will
> take into consideration every suggestion that has been made.
> 
> One issue came up so often that I feel I have to make a comment
> about it now: Linux. I'd say that one in three of the messages I received
> asked for a Linux version of Pegasus Mail... The problem with this idea is
> not any specific resistance on my part, but a pure lack of resources -
> principally time. Pegasus Mail for Windows is about 360,000 lines of quite
> carefully-written Windows C code, and I can't simply take it over to a
> Linux
> system and recompile it - I would have to rewrite a large proportion of
> the
> code from scratch. There is also the problem that I am not a skilled unix
> programmer - I would have to learn a whole new programming paradigm.
> Having
> said all that, however, I feel I have to revisit this issue, so in the
> next
> week I will be purchasing and installing a copy of Linux (probably Red
> Hat)
> and re-evaluating what it might take to produce a Linux version of Pegasus
> Mail. No promises, but I'll see what I can do.
> 
> My deepest thanks to everyone who replied - even to the person who
> told me to stop whining, because he threw everyone else into such
> sharp relief. Not many developers are as lucky as I am in the loyalty
> and support of their users, and in the last couple of days I have been
> forcibly reminded of that. Thank you all.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -- David --
> 
> 
> ------------------ David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail ----------------------
>   Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand | e-mail: David.Harris na pmail.gen.nz
>            Phone: +64 3 453-6880 | Fax: +64 3 453-6612
> 
> From a rulebook for Japanese hotel chambermaids:
>    "Light pranks add zest to your services, but don't pull the
>     customers' ears."
> 
> ----
> Ing. Jiří Kuchta   (Jiri Kuchta)                                  
>         Brno University of Technology
>         Fac. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>         Údolní 53; CZ-60200 Brno; Europe; Earth
> +------------------------------------------------------------------
> tel: +420-5-43167-322  fax: +420-5-43167-300   mob: +420-603-892547  
> mailto:kuchta na fee.vutbr.cz          ICQ:25310675
> http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~kuchta     
> +------------------------------------------------------------------
> Pegasus Mail - ceska WWW:  http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~kuchta/pmail 
> Pegasus Mail - ceska konference:  pmail-cz na fee.vutbr.cz
> -----
> Czech letters test: ěščřžýáíé
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Pmail-cz mailing list
> Pmail-cz na fee.vutbr.cz
> http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/mailman/listinfo/pmail-cz
> Veskere pozadavky zasilejte na adresu Pmail-cz-request na fee.vutbr.cz