On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:41:48AM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > The mbox format does have advantages but there can be as many > disadvantages. The general consensus here seems to be to rely on mbox > for archives and use maildir (by default) for everything else.
Well, I'm quite used to mbox and just hope it doesn't become obsolete anytime soon... > Mutt has no problem with either no matter how large. That's comforting to know. > > Word processors and spreadsheet programs would never have succeeded in > > forcing users to keep their documents or spreadsheets in a special > > directory, but with email, people seem to have gotten used to this > > idea. > > Well, few understand what email is, let alone the storage mechanism. > And with everyone running to the web, I don't expect that situation > has any chance of improving. Indeed. > On a somewhat related note, you might want to have a look at Google's > Wave to see what the future may have in store for us: > > http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html > > The YouTube videos (totalling about an hour, IIRC), are interesting from > a number of different perspectives. I won't summarise the concept or > the features except to say that for anyone like myself that cringes at > the thought of using a web browser for such things, you'll find toward > the end of the last video an example of an ncurses interface; > unsurprisingly (or not), it was that interface that received the most > applause. Nice. Thank you for the reference! If the command-line interface itself were to be drowned by new developments, it would IMHO be a sorry loss... Tom -- Tom Baker <tba...@tbaker.de>
