It was thus said that the Great jwsmobile once stated: > > > On 7/7/2015 12:43 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > >It was thus said that the Great jwsmobile once stated: > >>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. > Most of us have either browser embedded PDF viewers, or Adobe associated > with PDF's and are one click away.
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. > > 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. I think that's only Tony who does that. > 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?)
