Re: [Nolug] GMANE mirror? (was Re: Please Enjoy Another E-Mail Alert)

On 2010-04-13 13:11, Barrington Womble wrote:
> I'll ask again: about when you're not on your own machine? Like, you
> know, at work.

Check out the IMAP protocol, and gmail's support for it.

The world wasn't invented last week; smart people solved these
problems probably before you were out of kindergarten.

>
> And what about smartphones? It's a significantly different medium.

Grumpy Old Man says... the "phone" in smartphone means /sound/.
Teeny little screens and itsy-bitsy little keyboards are a pain in
the flippin' arse.

They are *not* the right tools for the job of reading more than
snippets of email.

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-04-13 11:07, Barrington Womble wrote:
>>
>>> That would be huge. You know what else sucks? Having two different
>>> browsers open at the same time so I can monitor two web-based e-mail
>>> addresses. It's distracting.
>>>
>>>
>> That's because the web is *not* the proper tool for the task. Use a
>> screwdriver, not a hammer, to drive a screw.
>>
>> Email and netnews protocols and clients have 20+ years of refinement; they
>> do what they do *very well*. Use them.
>>

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