Re: [CH] cajohn...
Jim Graham (spooky130@cox.net)
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:26:47 -0500
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:21:09PM -0500, Dave Drum wrote:
> Me neither - but, I am smart enough to not accept anything that
> Micro$not has a hand in at face value. And to always locate
> alternative utilities and applications which work better and faster.
For e-mail, I've been using mutt since somewhere around version 0.6
(ca. 1995, give or take a year or two). I wouldn't consider switching
to anything else unless I was forced to use an M$ system for e-mail,
and even then, I seem to recall seeing a POP3 grabber, procmail (not
so sure on this one...don't know if I could live w/o procmail), and
mutt, all packages for Cygwin.....
> But, I've been doing this since Bill Gates was a snot-nosed chump who
> didn't bathe nearly often enough - back in the wood fired, steam
> powered, belt drive days of S-100 bus computers, TRaSh-80s and Commode
> Door 64s. Bv)=
I haven't been around computers and the nets quite that long.... I
started out while in college at Texas A&M. I remember Bitnet, Texnet
(which was renamed from something else...but I don't remember what it
was called before), and, of course, Arpanet. I remember when I was
first told that it'd been renamed to Internet. My reaction: "Oh,
what a dumb name!"
I haven't seen Bitnet, Texnet, (not to mention Archie servers), etc.,
since then. I did have a newsfeed (via UUCP) from a public access
Unix or two.
Well, that was fun (the memories, that is)!
Later,
--jim
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