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Re: mailing list vs "the futur"



On Wednesday 29 August 2018 06:03:30 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:54:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Which is why, in this age of feeding 100 megs of advertising to the
> > browser client [...]
>
> ...for which NNTP would be actually very inefficient ;-D
>
> [...]
>
> > procmail, sends the tde version of kmail a "get mail" message over
> > dbus
>
> dbus. Eeek ;-)
>
> But no, seriously: since mail is such an abstract protocol, it does
> allow this kind of thing.
>
> > So I'm an obnoxious old fart, show me an even better way, if you
> > can. Computers are supposed to do work FOR the user, not the other
> > way around by creating circuitous ways past the ticket taker.
>
> So that's why you can bury us under such an amount of mails ;-P
>
> Rock on!
>
> Cheers
> -- tomás

Spot on Tomas.


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