Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Bokma wrote:
>> And workplaces. Some people have more then one computer in the house. >> My partner can check her email when I had her over the computer. When >> I want to check my email when she is using it, I have to change the >> session, fire up Thunderbird (which eats away 20M), and change the >> session back. >> >> [ .. ] > > Hmm. That would just be a matter of preference. Personally I moved my > Thunderbird profile into a shared directory and pointed everyone at > it. Now only one login session can run Thunderbird at a time, but any > login can see everyone's mailboxes. She uses hotmail, yahoo!, etc. and I don't want her accidently delete my email. >> Most people who use Thunderbird, yes. Different with OE, I am sure. >> With a thin client *everybody*. > > True. As a programmer I don't usually think about the people who never > download updates. The way I look at it, if somebody doesn't have the > latest version, they shouldn't be complaining about a bug. A lot of non-programmers have no idea that there are bugs in their software other then the crashing ones. >> Maybe because a lot of users aren't really heavy users. A nice >> example (IMO) of a web client that works quite good: webmessenger ( >> http://webmessenger.msn.com/ ). It has been some time since I used it >> the last time, but if I recall correctly I hardly noticed that I was >> chatting in a JavaScript pop up window. > > Haven't ever needed to use that program. Some of my customers use it. It has its uses, especially the block option :-D. (I don't believe that being available 24/7 has a positive effect on my work). >> I rather have my email stored locally :-) But several webmail >> services offer a form to download email. s/form/way/ > I've not seen a service that allows that. Sounds nice. IIRC gmail does it. [ reducing traffic ] > Eventually you reach the point where it's not bandwidth any more, it's > server load. All these things like mod_gzip, deltas, and so on add > server load. True. On the other hand, servers get more and more powerful. > As to the point about "page not modified", it's not in the HTML spec, Hence I wrote: >> RSS (I have the impression that there is no "page has not been >> modified" thing like with HTML, > content. For best results (due to clock mismatches etc), the client > should set the If-Modified-Since header to the value of the > Last-Modified header sent by the server when the page was first > requested and cached. But feed readers, at least the one I have had a look at, seem not to support this... > I think we can agree that in some cases, Webmail is better, and in > others, clients are better. Much of this will be personal preference, > and I would like to see ISPs offering both methods of accessing e-mail > (as mine in fact does - POP3 and Webmail). Agreed. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
