Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 13:22:01 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Plug-n-Play Internet acccess (was Re: httpd as part of the system.) Message-ID: <199503272022.NAA03070@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: Plug-n-Play Internet acccess (was Re: httpd as part of the system.)" (Mar 27, 9:39am)
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> Typically I dislike POP because it implies I will have one > machine with me all the time and access from various locations > rather than using various machines at various locations to access > the same information. My boss is at various locations all the time, and he's found that it's *much* easier to have one machine that he can connect to most networks than to expect whoever is hosting him to provide him with an account on their machine. It's much 'easier' for places to hand you a connection to a wire than to spend the time to setup a temporary account for you. He brings his Power-Book with him wherever he goes, and I have to admit that POP is the *best* solution for him. Even over slow links he's able to download his email, respond/reply to it at will, and then re-connect and send the mail when it's convenient. POP is a great solution. However, it does require that you have a portable machine, but having spent a couple days hanging out at airports last week en-route they are becoming very common for business folks. > I will probably change my mind once I get a portable machine. A correctly setup POP mail system works very well IMHO. Nate
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