Re: Suggestions

[Roeland Huys <huys imec be>]

Netscape and StarOffice are too big because they integrate programs with
not many common issues. (HTML+EMAIL? nothing to do with each other!)  
I agree.

But I think making a progam which combines typical messaging protocols,
like E-mail, news, AOL, ICQ, ... can be done very efficient with compact
code. Perhaps with plugins? 
You have to see that for each type of protocol everything is about the
same, except the communication layer which is a rather small interface.

But of course, only messaging stuff. I don't want to see spreadsheet
support in my mail reader!

On 2001.04.26 14:09:10 +0200 Maria Pinjanainen wrote:
> 
> On 2001.04.26 14:47 Daniel Foster wrote:
> > > > > - Newsgroup support
> > > > I am strongly against this.  Balsa is an *e-mail client*, not a
> > > > newsreader.  The two should be kept seperate.  Check out Pan.
> 
> > The nature of news and e-mail is fundamentally diffferent.  E-mail is a
> > one-to-one communication (essentially, ignoring mailing lists), and
> news is
> > a big many-to-many thing.
> 
> I agree, too. We don't need big monsters. If someone needs all-in-one,
> there is
> Netscape-Mozilla and Star Office. ;-)
> 
> maRia
> 
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