On Thursday 23 September 1999, at 22 h 23, the keyboard of Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> while i've used uucp for years i would recommend against making a part of > the laptop package. it's quite complicated This is certainly wrong. My UUCP configuration files, all together, make less lines than my sendmail or PPP configuration. > and difficult to debug for a I disagree. > beginning and it's quite unlikely that a new comer to the net will even know > where to find a uucp connection. Unfortunately, yes, most recent ISP know nothing besides basic DNS, SMTP and Web hosting (and often not even that). > imho fetchmail is a much better choice and will be useful to a much wider > group of people. If you have several users on your laptop (and we are talking about Unix here), fetchmail is not really convenient: you'll need several accounts on the ISP and you'll need to put the passwords for all of them in fetchmail's configuration. > gonna include fetchmail you could argue that netscape would make a better > choice and even have a wider appeal. We should use only free packages in task-laptop, which eliminates netscape.
