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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:19:26 -0500
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From: Lisa Robinson <lmrobin@MIT.EDU>
Subject: WinZephyr Release Effort Underway
Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu
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Date: January 31, 2001
To: MIT Community Members, itpartners@mit.edu, macpartners@mit.edu, 
ntpartners@mit.edu, sw-release-announce@mit.edu
From: Software Release Team; winzephyr-release@mit.edu
Re: WinZephyr Release Effort Underway
Cc: infosys@mit.edu,itag@mit.edu


Release Effort Underway
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Zephyr, an interactive messaging service, previously available only on 
Athena and Macintosh platforms, will soon be available for Windows 
users.  A WinZephyr Release team has been convened.  The team will finalize 
the installer, write documentation and training materials, and help ensure 
that support areas are ready when the product is released.  Zephyr is an 
MIT developed application.  We are hoping to be able to release WinZephyr 
in March 2001.

Features
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Faster than an email system, Zephyr delivers messages (called zgrams) 
instantaneously.  You can, however,  converse, only with other users who 
are logged on and running Zephyr at the same time you are.  Zephyr allows 
users to conduct one-on-one and group conversations and to receive notices, 
e.g., notification of incoming email.  Zephyr makes use of an identifying 
sequence for users to specify with whom they want to converse, or what 
kinds of notices they want to receive.

Testing
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We will be soliciting testers within the next few weeks, and will send a 
separate message with details.


Status of Release Effort
-----------------------------------
For more information and up to date status, visit the WinZephyr Release 
Notebook at http://web.mit.edu/swrt/winzephyr/ or contact the release team 
at winzephyr-release@mit.edu.

Best regards,


Lisa Robinson
WinZephyr Release Coordinator
lmrobin@mit.edu
W91, 213A
(617) 258-0492