OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Nov 21 18:12:47 2001

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > Doing email through a shell account was pretty painful, with the slow serial
> > link handlers that UNIX shell accounts offered. The Windows-based email
> > handlers embedded in Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc, or Eudora, which was
> > separate, were all MUCH easier and quicker to deal with.
>
> Maybe Pine sucked over a serial line, but Elm is much less termcap-spendy. I
> still use Elm to read my E-mail. Man was meant to read mail on-spool.

Pine...Elm...Mutt...as long as its a console based utility, I'm happy :P

-Toth
Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 18:12:47 GMT

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