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Index of Subjects The problem with Cobequid Community Network has been corrected for sometime now thanks to all of your advice. Now the thread is I guess more about the possible replacement of hotmail. As the CobCN has a newer version of lynx now. Dave On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, John Nemeth wrote: > I've been following this thread with some interest. Here are > some of my thoughts. The problem with Cobequid Community Network is > that it is running one of the prerelease versions of CSuite. The > version of Lynx in the prereleases can't handle the recent changes > that HotMail made to their site. There are also a number of other > problems with that version of Lynx, including security bugs. So, in > order to support HotMail, those sites will need to upgrade, which > should be done anyways. > > As for the librarian's comment that PINE is too difficult, I > think it's completely bogus. That comment assumes that the average > user is either a complete moron or extremely lazy. There are > certainly users that will fall into these categories, but most people > are fully capable of learning PINE. PINE is extremely easy to use. > > As for a HotMail like service in Canada, it would be fairly easy > for a community net to set it up on their own system. There are three > ways of doing this, use a commercial product, use a free product, or > roll your own. Obviously, the last option isn't suitable for most > sites. The products that I know about are: > > commercial - Dmailweb, and CWmail -- http://www.netwinsite.com/ > free - Endymion MailMan -- http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ > > If anybody knows of any other products to do this, I'd be interested > in hearing about them. > > Finally, as has been mentioned, the BC Community Networks > Association is in the process of setting up CWmail on their server for > use by their members. It should be completed this week. >
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