getting off this mailing list

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:01:35AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Somewhat true, but I can access my home system from elsewhere with 
> ssh and achieve the same result.

I'm confused: are people actually asserting

a) that using mutt confines you to reading your email in one
place (specifically at home) and

b) that getting a Gmail account is the best way to read
high-volume lists?

Both are very, very wrong.

1) I use mutt on my laptop. It is the best -- though perhaps
not the easiest-to-use -- email client that I've ever used.
2) I download all my email from a remote server to my
laptop using fetchmail.
3) I can leave my mail on that server or delete it off
there. This is all defined in ~/.fetchmailrc.
4) Fetchmail works over all variants of POP, IMAP, SSL, and
ssh -- I download my mail using IMAP over SSH.
5) I have more capacity on my laptop and on the remote
server than Gmail would ever give me. It was considered a
big deal when Gmail upgraded to 2 gigs, but I have
effectively limitless space on the server.
6) My Ubuntu messages go directly into an Ubuntu folder via
procmail. I don't see them unless I want to see them --
hence they don't bother me when traffic gets heavy.

Or do I misunderstand the issues people are discussing here?
It's always seemed silly to me that people want to
unsubscribe from this list just because traffic is heavy: I
get several hundred mailing-list messages per day from
various lists, and they all get nicely filtered off into
their own folders. Posting frequency is a non-issue -- as
the people on this list, in particular, should know better
than anyone. It's actually rather embarrassing to see Linux
users recommending Gmail as a solution for reducing their
email burden.

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
steve at laniels.org
+(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/
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