7 Jul
2015
7 Jul
'15
6:06 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great jwsmobile once stated:
I think that's only Tony who does that.
On 7/7/2015 12:43 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
True enough. But I've tried using a GUI to check email and frankly, I
found it too painful to use. It wasn't that the GUI was confusing or
inconsistent, but that it was *way too slow*. Sluggish to display, and
painfully slow to download (it's not unusual for me to receive everal
hundred emails per day). By checking email on the server using a command
line tool, I can do the filtering upon receipt (not when downloading) and
blast through two emails in the time it would take a GUI to display one.
Right now, I'm using an iPad (and a Bluetooth keyboard) with an SSH client
to check my email. I get to use an email client I'm familiar with for
reading, along with my preferred editor to write this email.
It was thus said that the Great jwsmobile once
stated:
Most of us have either browser embedded PDF
viewers, or Adobe associated
with PDF's and are one click away. sending live URL's in the text that don't
require a multi step copy
paste, or even save email edit, feed to lynx would be nice. Html email
does that.
There are some on this list (such as I) that do not use a graphical
email
client, but a text-mode email client. [1]
-spc (And the etiquette for this list is inline or bottom posting, not
top)
[1] To even look at a attached PDF, for example, I have to save it
first, then download it to view it. Yes, I do
check my email on the server using a command line program
[2].
[2] mutt. I was forced to upgrade a decade ago because elm was no
longer maintained and non-Y2K compliant (I think that's why I
switched).
I just don't see inconveniencing an entire list because a few people
want to run on internet connected 286 machines, with attached ASR33's. As far as email browsing, I have used thunderbird and
prior to that the
same facility in the combined netscape. The way of all emails seem to
be towards letting some great and wonderful company such as your ISP,
Google, Yahoo, or heaven forbid AOL keep all of your email, and present
it, and even thunderbird has gone into "we don't support it anymore"
status with Firefox.
So archiving my own email may end up in the same state as your argument
for text archiving.
Did I mention I run my own email sever?
However the format of the email won't be an issue
in my case.
Would that be HTML? HTML 2? HTML 3? HTML 3.2? HTML 4? HTML 5?
-spc (Or even XHTML?)