Date: 06 Oct 1997 17:05:38 +0100 From: dave edmondson <dme@sco.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seamless nomadic e-mail access Message-ID: <q2eafgm7u7h.fsf@zero-gravity.netlab.london.sco.com> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:16:21 %2B0930" References: <199710060746.RAA00729@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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.
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