[Ccil-user] Preserving CCIL services (fwd)

[Emil J. Volcheck]

A comment regarding Miles Nordin's message on reading a bunch of messages
on line with "pine".

Pine, in text access, is so much faster than doing anything with webmail,
you should be able to dispose of a 100 messages in jig time!  When I have
that many most of them need to be deleted immediately and pine does that
in the blink of an eye!!

In addition, pine is essentially total protection against the various viri
and you can not accidentally activate a virus by viewing a message, as you
can with many of the email clients (POP or IMAP).

But, its speed and safety make me continue to use it, except for a few
rare messages with BIG attachments that webmail gives quicker access to.

And, since CCIL provides both it and webmail, as well as email storage and
organization, one can access your mail at any time from anywhere, you can
use your email acccount either as POP or IMAP whichever you prefer.

Having this flexibility makes the current CCIL arrangement pretty
generally useful to maost any user type or preference.

Emil Volcheck ...


 On 10 May 2002, Miles Nordin wrote:

> >>>>> "eas" == Elgene A Smith <genesmit@ccil.org> writes:
>
>    eas> text access to PINE and LYNX should be accorded in the
>    eas> continuance of CCIL's mission
>
>    eas> 3. A "sponsor" fee of 100-150$ to include graphic access
>
> While I don't necessarily think graduated service is evil, it's
> important to keep in mind that
>
>   terminal:text access :: PPP:``graphic'' access.
>
> is misleading.  For example, I get about 100 messages a day, which
> would take a long time to read with 'pine'.  By reading messages
> off-line, I consume only 10 - 20 min of modem time per day for email.
> During this time, I'm using PPP for ``text access.''
>
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