On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:42:18 +0000, Roedy Green wrote: > On 08 Oct 2005 18:59:39 -0700, Paul Rubin > <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted : > >> >>I read mail over an ssh connection to a Unix shell. I have no easy >>way to read html email with a graphics browser. > > So the rest of the world should forgo rich communication because of > your obsolete software? How could anything every evolve with that > attitude?
Hardly obsolete, any more than hammers are obsolete just because we have Concords. (The Concord... now *there* is an obsolete technology.) You may have noticed that even Microsoft have acknowledged the power and flexibility of text-based shells, and will be (if they get the technology right in time) building one into Vista. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
