[mdlug] List archive and long lines

[Aaron Kulkis]

Wolfger wrote:
> On 1/12/07, David Favro <mdlug at meta-dynamic.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Not to mention the filters I can apply, like "star"ing the e-mail if
>>> it's got an obvious reply to me (like your post did), so that, when
>>> I'm busy, I can attend to only the important e-mails. If anything
>>> webmail helps me process my e-mail faster!
>>>
>> Agreed, but you can do all that stuff (plus a lot more) with a "real"
>> MUA also.
> 
> I'm just trying to combat the misconception that webmail is inherently
> slow and full of spam.

It's inherently slow.  Any HTTP interaction over the web is inherently
slower than a simple disk access to an email which has been ALREADY
downloaded moments, hours, or even months earlier... (or more commonly
with Linux and Unix, a mere disk buffer access that's already loaded
into memory).

Even at my home in the USA, it's orders of magnitude slower than
mail that I mass-download from a pop-server upon connecting (or,
more often...periodically downloading every new email every few
minutes whether I'm there or not).

  That used to be the case (and probably still is
> with some, like Hotmail), but gmail and the new yahoo mail are speedy
> and clean, easy to use, powerful, and relatively spam free (Gmail
> filters it out better than Thunderbird ever did, and with fewer false
> positives).

The new yahoo blows ******* ... I've used it, and had to switch back
to the old style, because, while the idea looked neat and everything,
i had just too many failures.  Not everyone is sitting on a T1 line....


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