[wplug] telnet for email

John Strange john at strangeness.org
Tue Jun 17 15:54:21 EDT 2003


Hmm,

I'm not sure why you guys go through all the cryptic stuff just to check
email, when you can pop3s it off and leave the mail on the server till
you get home.

Just my .02.

- John

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:51, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
> I did that for awhile too, but some people from whom I really do want 
> to get mail just don't know any better than to send HTML, or use 
> something stupid like AOL.   So then I had all these friends and 
> relatives complaining that I never answered their emails.
> -dgm
> 
> On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 02:05  PM, James O'Kane wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> I used to telnet into Pitt and use Pine.  I stopped because some 
> >> people
> >> will never learn to stop sending me html mail, no matter how hard I
> >> try.  So I use Mozilla on Linux and the standard Apple Mail client on
> >> OSX.
> >
> > I solved this by having email that was HTML only marked as spam and
> > deleted.
> >
> > -james
> >
> >
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