We'd say that, right?
Most of our operators have administered other servers and networks. We've seen the problems others have had and tried our best to fix them here. We have no interest but the betterment of your experience; I challenge you to find our source of income (it's our own wallets).
We're in this for you.
One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us'.We are natural villagers. For most of mankind's history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing.
Interactivity. Many-to-many communications. Pervasive networking. These are cumbersome new terms for elements in our lives so fundamental that, before we lost them, we didn't even know to have names for them.
-- Douglas Adams, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
All the legalese aside, it is my strong desire that Pegasus Mail be as widely used as is possible in the hope that by furthering communication between people, we may in some small way come to understand and accept each other better.
In 1989, the University where I worked (in Dunedin, New Zealand) installed its first Novell NetWare network. It wasn't until after we installed it that we found that it didn't include an e-mail system, but we'd already used up our budget and the commercial mail packages that were available were very expensive. To fill the gap, I wrote a simple e-mail program in my own time and made it available on the network: I was quite surprised to find that people liked it.
Early in 1990, after tidying it up a little, I made it available on the Internet at a friend's FTP site in Hawaii, expecting that four or five other sites might find a use for it... In the first week of availability, it was downloaded more than 100 times, which also surprised me. I found that I was receiving mail from people thanking me for giving them something they couldn't have afforded any other way -- communication. I grew to understand that communication had to be regarded as a right, not as a privilege: it seemed to me in 1989, as it still seems to me now, that freedom of speech is useless if nobody can hear you. Giving away Pegasus Mail seemed to be a means by which I could try to make communication more accessible to a much wider range of people who needed it.
-- David Harris
I hope that mIRC has had, and will continue to have, a part to play in the making of new friendships, in the keeping of old ones, in the fostering of peaceful communication, and in the increased understanding and respect of other people and cultures, and that it has had a positive effect on people's lives.
-- Khaled Mardam-Bey
For all of us,
Alex Lambert
"denium"