[wellylug] [Fwd: Govt guidance would guarantee our geek credentials (Green Party media release)]

Ian Beardslee itb at falcons.co.nz
Fri Jul 9 22:17:33 NZST 2004


From: Brett Taylor

> Ian Beardslee wrote:
> 
> > Ouch - don't going letting David Harris see this - Pegasus Mail is
> not 
> > open source - it is free as in beer but not free as in freedom.
> 
> Argh! Pegasus Mail is a horrid POS.  Cool, it's New Zealand 'ware, Cool
> that it's free (as in beer), but my GOD -- it's an application stuck in
> the 90s! If you want an MDI interface, use Eudora Light -- the ads 
> aren't so bad!  And have you tried to convert away from Pegasus? 
> Basically, you can't!

I used Pegasus many years ago connecting to Mercury (also by David) 
running on a Netware 3.12 server (ahh those were the days :-)

> 
> Nothing against David Harris, I'm sure he's an alright guy, but 
> Basically, for the quality of the program, I hate Pegasus Mail.  Stay 
> away from it.  Use Thunderbird -- it's less confusing.

I think it is a great program (we all entitled to my opinion) and 
recommend it to people over Outlook Express and would recommend it even 
more if it was open.

> my NZD$0.02 :)

Here's your change $0.02 :-)

Ian





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