So says Chris from his webmail account...
On 8/25/05, Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > ... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I > > assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and > > are much, much slower. > [snip] > > Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almost anything). Why, oh WHY, > would we subject ourselves to Web-based message boards and Webmail > services? When using a proper e-mail client, your bandwidth usage > consists of downloading your e-mail. When using a Webmail service, your > bandwidth usage consists of downloading the message, PLUS the entire > user interface. Additionally, a user interface operating inside an HTML > renderer can NEVER be as fast as a native-code user interface with only > the e-mail message itself passed through the renderer. I mean, the way > Webmail works, you're at the message list and click on a message to > view. This causes a whole new page, user-interface and all, to be > loaded. In comparison, that's like shutting down and re-opening your > e-mail program for every single message you want to view! > > Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing hypertext > pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every application > imaginable? > > ... > > </rant> > > Chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFDDoRR6ZGQ8LKA8nwRAvinAKCVi3Sfztpm3ILUk7TnunPJxBEVzwCguvAu > ME8mWt2eVNpPUckJ3NT39KY= > =TdTk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
