[pmmail-list] Interest in New Edition of PMMail

[Jim Ferguson]

and then there are those of us who happily use PMMail under XP instead of Outlook!!



On Thu, 25 May 2006 00:39:18 +0100, Dr. Martin R. Hadam wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:19:47 -0500 (EST), Walter F. Metcalf wrote:

> Hello Walter:

> there are not many individuals to check. The single person that
>obviously has most knowledge on mail/news-related RFC as well as
>related programming on OS/2 is Trevor Hemsley, who has been trying very
>hard to get a hold on PMMail for quite some time now. He has even
>declined to start up with other interesting programming tasks because
>he was still hoping to get the PMMail code. While the latter is not
>publicly known, both the qualifications as well as the specific
>interest & activity of the person is easily discovered when searching
>os/2-related fora. If I hadn't found this notice myself, I'd not made a
>public announcement in the first place.

> Now reading about your ballot but not being a VOICE member, here are
>my two cents: 

>(i) provide a public announcement OR a hint (because VOICE may be bound
>by an NDA not to disclose that amount) on the amount required for the
>licence itself.

>(ii) start a worldwide, open call for donations to acquire the license.
>VOICE is only supposed to do the management required for the license
>transfer. You'd be surprised how much money you will get... (from VOICE
>non-members). Or is this a new trend: every club/2 tries to get hold of
>some valuable code and makes it only available to members?? Not a
>clever idea IMHO

>(iii) once you have the money and VOICE has acquired PMMail, send the
>code to Trevor and just wait. VOICE has done its job.

> This way, it may not turn out as a VOICEd-version of PMMail - but I'm
>certain that this way, everybody in the OS/2 community will see a host
>of improvements on PMMail soon.

> with best wishes

> Martin



>>We have not found anyone who fits Dr. Hadams' qualifications.  As for
>>VOICE needing the cash, we are far more likely to lose money on this
>>deal.
>>
>>Walter
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:16:05 -0600 (CST), Maynard wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:42:42 +0100, Dr. Martin R. Hadam wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why don't you turn to the people who have publicly been quoted as
>>>>being very much interested to run this project
>>>
>>>You can remind us who that is, please?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>--Maynard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>*****************************************
>>Walter F. Metcalf
>>VOICE Vice-President
>>Warpdoctor Co-ordinator
>>walter dot os2 at rogers dot com
>>*****************************************
>>
>>

> Martin R. Hadam
> Kinderklinik - Medizinische Hochschule
> D-30623 Hannover
> Germany
> Email: Hadam.Martin at MH-Hannover.de





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