Discussion paradigms (was Re: [Icehouse] IGDC Winter (and beyond))

[Chris Goodwin]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, David Artman wrote:

> On 10/4/07, Don Sheldon <don.sheldon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> By which I of course mean "two and half, almost three."
>
> Yeah, I should have my Gmail account on the lists, here. I just like
> using my main domain e-mail with its paltry 10 MB (because it expects me
> to pull down e-mails, like, every ten minutes or whatever; but I haven't
> in months).
>
> It's funny, but I actually have come to abhor offline e-mail clients,
> because I have (or use) so many computers that it's a pain to try to
> maintain local e-mail on just oen of them (never mind scattered across
> several of them). It's the same reason I don't bother with offline HTML
> editors anymore, now that I have online editors on all my sites, be they
> wikis, CMSs, or forums--or just a quick FTP down, edit in Notepad, and
> FTP back up of simple pages. ...And occasionally Google Docs (I NEVER
> remember that I have those available for piddly stuff!).

I use gmail, with fetchmail on my primary system (Debian etch) to pull 
messages down, and pine to read them locally.  They're all still on 
gmail if I want to get them while I'm away from home.  Win win, as far 
as I'm concerned.

-- 
Chris Goodwin
cgoodwin at gmail.com