Part of dan's problem is that he's using a very old computer. People with new computers can easily install linux, people with older computers have better luck using older software.Softare that was written around the time that his computer was new would likely be easier, however he would be missing out on a lot of the benefits of newwer software.Actually, Dan's hardware can run a fresh NetBSD/OpenBSD distro no sweat (heck - he could even run X with wm2 fairly well if he wants to). One thing though: why download the messages? I believe Dan has an EFN account, right? He should be able to ssh into EFN and run Pine or Mutt, no? If yes, then all thats left is the PPP configuration. Even if EFN doesn't allow Pine/Mutt on their system, there are other alternatives like freeshell.org which do.
-beaker
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