Requiem

[Michael Baum]

It _is_ kind of a shame to watch the gradual fade-out of PMMail, which has been my client of choice since one of the earliest OS/2 releases. Sigh.

Of course, I suppose one doesn't actually _need_ constant updates and support of a favorite program. Except for the unsettling persistence of _really_ annoying bugs like that HTML O'Death phenomenon, or the peculiar Attachment-That-Gradually-Corrupts-the-BAG-file bug or ...

Oh, well. Gotta move with the times, I suppose. Fans of underappreciated email clients might be interested to know that Nick Knight has been trying to develop a version of _his_ OS/2 mailer for the Windows platform (cf. http://nick.secant.com/mr2win.htm). ' Course it's been in beta since, oh, seems like about the Carter administration...

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