On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:10:05 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > > > [NNTP] clients provide full-fledged editors > > and conversely full-fledged editors provide > > NNTP clients > GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor. > - Doug Mohney, in comp.arch
In a similar vein, most phones nowadays are just computers with a pocket-size form-factor and some wireless networking. So when you say… > My first act on joining any mailing list is to download the entire > archive into my local mail store. I have a script for this, for > mailman at least. and you happen to own >1 thingys that have general computing functionality -- phones, laptops, desktops, etc -- do you sync all your mailing-lists with all of them? I know friends who have installed a home-data-store… [Ive been resisting getting something like a NAS because each new thingabob I own is one more thing to maintain. I also know from past experience that such luddite battles are in the end always lost -- Im no technophile but I expect to live and die a techie] And inspite of all that it still sometimes happens that one has to work on a 'machine' that is not one's own. What then? The unfortunate and inexorable conclusion is that when the (wo)man <-> computer relation goes from 1-1 to 1-many, data and functionality will move away from 'own-machine' to the cloud. Will the data be subject to privacy-abuse and worse? Sure Will the functionality be as good as something one can fine-tune on one's own computer? heck no! But in the end, uniform access will trump all that -- compare the number of vi+emacs+eclipse users with google-doc users… So to come back full-circle: Earlier (your quote paraphrased) Emacs is a full-blown OS -- only lacks a good editor. Now: replace 'emacs' with 'firefox'. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list