22 Nov
2001
22 Nov
'01
5:05 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser skrev:
> Doing email through a shell account was pretty
painful, with the slow
> serial link handlers that UNIX shell accounts offered. The Windows-based
> email handlers embedded in Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc, or Eudora,
> which was separate, were all MUCH easier and quicker to deal with.
Maybe Pine sucked over a serial line, but Elm is much
less termcap-spendy. I
still use Elm to read my E-mail. Man was meant to read mail on-spool.
Pine works fine if you connect at 14k4 or more. At very slow speeds (~2k4), it
will even adjust itself to a less chatty behaviour with a lot of less ANSI
sequences.
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