netscape trashing e-mail was Re: Honda ident. request

[James Ballenger]

Alain Toussaint wrote:

> wait untill they release the mail & news portion as OSS (OpenSource
> Software),the only showstopper preventing them is that they use a
> comercial database software for storing mail and they can't release THAT
> source (it's from another company),they are considering using the gnu
> database lib as replacement,when they do that,i expect a lot of hacker
> will clean the app (and really shrink the size,can you say communicator 6
> delivered on 3 floppy ??).

The next version 5.0 is supposed to be around 5mb down from 14.5 mb.

James Ballenger