[Coco] CoCo email app for OS9

[Barry Nelson]

On Jul 2, 2015, at 5:39 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
I happen to have an old CoCo OS9 L2 email app that uses uucp, I used to use it with my CoCo BBS. I can try and scrape the files together if there is any interest. Please be aware this may take some time.

> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:28:12 -0700
> From: "K. Pruitt" <pruittk at roadrunner.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] marty goodmans 512k coco 3
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephen H. Fischer"
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 12:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] marty goodmans 512k coco 3
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> 
>> And that address IS in the subscriber list.
>> 
>> IMHO it is time to stop this plague of "via CoCo" Nonsense.
>> 
>> Why is it any benefit to the members.
>> 
>> SHF
>> 
> 
> The via CoCo stuff is just an attempt to preserve some sort of control over 
> one's email address. It's both harmless and futile. At least in my opinion.
> 
> When I first started seeing the via CoCo stuff I thought people were 
> actually responding from their CoCo! I spent several hours scouring the 
> archived list messages looking for mention of this elusive CoCo email app 
> before It occurred to me what was actually going on.
> 
> Though I have to say that I am kind of surprised that there isn't a CoCo 
> email app. I don't see any reason why anybody would want to use their CoCo 
> for email, but since when has necessity ever been the only driving force for 
> a programmer? I can walk over to the wall switch and turn on a light, but I 
> still wanted my CoCo to do it too, just because.
> 
> With an email app my CoCo could email my on my cell phone and tell me it 
> turned on a light, or whatever. Not because I need to know that, but because 
> maybe I just want to get email from my CoCo.
> 
> Geez, now I want to write an email app. What were we talking about?