From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 6 09:07:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA07610 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from zero-gravity.netlab.london.sco.com (zero-gravity.netlab.london.sco.com [150.126.252.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07603 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dme@sco.com) Received: (from dme@localhost) by zero-gravity.netlab.london.sco.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id RAA04853; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:05:38 +0100 To: Mike Smith Cc: John Polstra , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access References: <199710060746.RAA00729@word.smith.net.au> X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2, MULE 3.0 (MOMIJINOGA) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.88 "Tsurugi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: dave edmondson Date: 06 Oct 1997 17:05:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:16:21 +0930" Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.12/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith writes: : > A couple of people suggested _always_ reading mail on the laptop, : > thereby skirting the problem of switching back and forth between : > machines. That's an intriguing idea, but I'm still hoping to avoid : > the need for it. : : I don't understand this. It is *the* obvious answer to the problem; : all your mail is in one place, and it's always with you. You don't : have to worry at all about getting "at" your mail, or any of the agony : you describe. whilst i agree that keeping everything on the laptop is a fine way to go (it's what i do), sometimes i'd rather it wasn't like that. the laptop in question (toshiba tecra) can't come close to even a relatively cheap desktop machine in terms of: - processor power, - io performance, - display size and capability. i can run emacs (as i use gnus) on the laptop with the display pointed at my desktop system, but i still suffer some performance problems. using the laptop as a display (which is what i normally do) means that i'm limited to 1024x768, which is tight after 1280x1024 (even with a small font on a 21" monitor 1024x768 still feels cramped, and 16bit colour is hard to get working right). all in all, i have to agree with mike that `on the laptop' is the way to go (for me at least), but i'm not truly happy with it. i've got high hopes for gnus new `agent' mode, but it's not there yet. -- --- Dave Edmondson, Architect, interNet Engineering, The Santa Cruz Operation.