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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North

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To: Graystone who wrote (5957)	11/25/2004 3:56:17 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) of 8273

Marcos is actually an acronym -- minimalist avatar, relying on common ordinary systems. I would like to see you surf the net on a Radio Shack Color Computer. That 6809 fairly boils at 50 MhZ. (You can run them at that speed, really) The north is rather quaint. My brother was surfing the net from a 386 from a bulletin board in 1996. You see Pentium II's for sale with 2 gige drives and 15 inch screens for 500 dollars or best offer. For an extra 50 bucks they throw in a Cocker Spaniel that answers to the name Drat, and a month's supply of IAMS. I am even quainter. I surf the net with a ten or 20 gige drive, Linux Slackware 9.1 running GNOME. One good thing, PINE email running fetchmail -- it barfs on spam and HTML mail. All I get is the text. No viruses, no MS Windows docs -- deleting is fast relief. And I can use Sendmail to turn my computer into a mail server that cranks out mailing lists by PERL to my heart's content. The ISP's no longer enable BCC's of hugie mailing lists, silently killing them when the try to send more than ten of the same letter by bulk mail. Bye Bye Pegasus. Most people are only dimly aware that cut and paste lists in Eudora or Pegasus do not work anymore with most hi speed ISP's. There are no error messages if the mail is killed or does not go through. I am sure that policy violates some kind of contract with the user. The net is not about reliability. It is a comons nightmare. It ain't Canada Post. But nobody steals email usually, or do they? Second bug. As a commercial use, electronic mail has a buggy filing system. It needs a killer app. Large email files after a coupla years slow down the standard mailers something massive. What is needed is a mail organizer contact data base and search engine that is a better eau than Eudora 4.X and handles mailing lists too (in straight text DB.. no fancy canned crap.) EC<:-{

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