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<FONT FACE="Baskerville" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="3" POINTSIZE="12" DEFAULT="SIZE">and then there are those of us who happily use PMMail under XP instead of Outlook!!<BR>
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On Thu, 25 May 2006 00:39:18 +0100, Dr. Martin R. Hadam wrote:<BR>
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>On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:19:47 -0500 (EST), Walter F. Metcalf wrote:<BR>
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> Hello Walter:<BR>
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> there are not many individuals to check. The single person that<BR>
>obviously has most knowledge on mail/news-related RFC as well as<BR>
>related programming on OS/2 is Trevor Hemsley, who has been trying very<BR>
>hard to get a hold on PMMail for quite some time now. He has even<BR>
>declined to start up with other interesting programming tasks because<BR>
>he was still hoping to get the PMMail code. While the latter is not<BR>
>publicly known, both the qualifications as well as the specific<BR>
>interest & activity of the person is easily discovered when searching<BR>
>os/2-related fora. If I hadn't found this notice myself, I'd not made a<BR>
>public announcement in the first place.<BR>
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> Now reading about your ballot but not being a VOICE member, here are<BR>
>my two cents: <BR>
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>(i) provide a public announcement OR a hint (because VOICE may be bound<BR>
>by an NDA not to disclose that amount) on the amount required for the<BR>
>licence itself.<BR>
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>(ii) start a worldwide, open call for donations to acquire the license.<BR>
>VOICE is only supposed to do the management required for the license<BR>
>transfer. You'd be surprised how much money you will get... (from VOICE<BR>
>non-members). Or is this a new trend: every club/2 tries to get hold of<BR>
>some valuable code and makes it only available to members?? Not a<BR>
>clever idea IMHO<BR>
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>(iii) once you have the money and VOICE has acquired PMMail, send the<BR>
>code to Trevor and just wait. VOICE has done its job.<BR>
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> This way, it may not turn out as a VOICEd-version of PMMail - but I'm<BR>
>certain that this way, everybody in the OS/2 community will see a host<BR>
>of improvements on PMMail soon.<BR>
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> with best wishes<BR>
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> Martin<BR>
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>>We have not found anyone who fits Dr. Hadams' qualifications. As for<BR>
>>VOICE needing the cash, we are far more likely to lose money on this<BR>
>>deal.<BR>
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>>Walter<BR>
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>>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:16:05 -0600 (CST), Maynard wrote:<BR>
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>>>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:42:42 +0100, Dr. Martin R. Hadam wrote:<BR>
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>>>>Why don't you turn to the people who have publicly been quoted as<BR>
>>>>being very much interested to run this project<BR>
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>>>You can remind us who that is, please?<BR>
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>>>Thanks in advance,<BR>
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>>>--Maynard<BR>
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>>*****************************************<BR>
>>Walter F. Metcalf<BR>
>>VOICE Vice-President<BR>
>>Warpdoctor Co-ordinator<BR>
>>walter dot os2 at rogers dot com<BR>
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> Martin R. Hadam<BR>
> Kinderklinik - Medizinische Hochschule<BR>
> D-30623 Hannover<BR>
> Germany<BR>
> Email: <FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>Hadam.Martin@MH-Hannover.de<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U><BR>
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