I feel some small measure of vindication that Eudora Pro has been singled out as the culprit responsible for overloading the mail servers.

As a student representative on LASCAC a few years back, I was among the few opposed to purchasing the site license for Eudora Pro in the first place.

Granted, I was more concerned with the gapping security problems (which have never been corrected) than with the future overload of the mail servers.

But had more folks listened, the current Eudora-related slow down might have been averted or at least delayed.

Nevertheless, I disagree with the solution endorsed by the computation center.

A better and more elegant solution: Let’s teach folks how to use mh.

I admit mh can’t handle all the MIME formats Eudora Pro can, but then I’ve also been opposed to using e-mail as a substitute for FTP.

So learn mh, wean yourself from Eudora and buy a few more months for those overloaded servers. Michael Whaley is right, however, we do need to upgrade eventually.

W. Scott Thune

Graduate student

English