{"id":1296,"date":"2006-10-11T22:25:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2006-10-11T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T01:25:14","slug":"eudora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Eudora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;m both mixed pleased and skeptic about the Qualcomm&#8217;s decision to open source that legendary e-mailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eudora.com\">Eudora<\/a>. I have no problems with the open-sourcing part, but more or less with the plans to use Thunderbird as the base <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualcomm.com\/press\/releases\/2006\/061011_project_collaboration_mozilla.html\">for the (new) open source version of Eudora<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/press\/mozilla-2006-10-11.html\">Mozilla&#8217;s announcement<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that the very first e-mailer I used was Eudora Light and that must have been around the end of 1994 and the start of 1995. Yeah: that&#8217;s that long ago. Eudora at that time was called postcardware and long time users will probably remember the following text:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">Eudora Light is postcardware!\n<\/p>\n<p>I moved and lived on Eudora for years, up to 2000, when I decided to move my data to a relatively unknown branch of open source mailer Phoenix Mail (maintained by mr. Ruder).  The rest is (relatively said) history: I hardly use my e-mailer nowadays nor do I actively check my e-mails. I guess, that&#8217;s not because of the loads of spam that come in everyday: it&#8217;s also because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessary to reply each (well-intended) e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t hear from me a month ago, hi to you again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;m both mixed pleased and skeptic about the Qualcomm&#8217;s decision to open source that legendary e-mailer Eudora. I have no problems with the open-sourcing part, but more or less with the plans to use Thunderbird as the base for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1296\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}