[Info-vax] Real Usenet clients, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

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On Jan 31, 5:41 pm, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
wrote:
> On 2013-01-31 21:48:58 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:
>
> > But throwing out good old stuff,
> > be it hardware or software or customs in favour of new stuff just
> > because it is new, even if it isn't good---I don't see the point.
>
> Not looking around see if the new stuff can solve your problems better?
>  That's what makes sad.   That you haven't looked around to learn what
> UTF-8 or MIME can bring, or to look at systems that are smaller, or
> simpler to manage, or that consume less power, or to tools and services

Typewriters are quite simple to manage and consume no power if they
are manuals.

Malware is new. Typewriters are immune.

Spam is new, too, as are spam filters. On the other hand, there are no
spam filters for postal mail. Back on the first hand, you don't really
need one nearly as much for postal mail.

> that are portable, or that are more ubiquitous.  Better mail servers,
> or hosted services, or any number of innovations.  There's a whole lot
> of really cool stuff available, stuff that can be much easier than what
> you're using now, or much more capable, and sometimes both.

Like TO.COM, available at fine freeware sites everywhere.

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