Re: Mulberry-discuss Digest, Vol 87, Issue 2

--On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:13:26 PM -0400 Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/12/2015 2:12 PM, David Gessel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I work overseas in places with bad internet: Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. You
>> know, places that are representative of the internet access of the vast,
>> vast majority of the population of the planet.
>
> Most of whom will not have much of a clue what IMAP is, much less use
> any kind of mail client but a web browser.
>
> I'm not saying you don't have a valid point, but you seem to be trying
> to lump all of the above people into a camp that supports your arguments
> in favor of such dramatic importance being attached to something that
> affects only a very small minority of users in the real world - ie those
> who are cursed by unreliable+low bandwidth internet access and want to
> use a heavy standalone mail client and are super concerned about
> security and not leaving traces of cached mail locally.

This reminds me of a bit of an Arlo Guthrie song:

   Other countries would say "Hey, he's the last guy...screw him", you
   know?  But in America, there is no discrimination, and there is no
   hypocrisy,'cause they'll get anybody.  And that's a wonderful thing
   about America.

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Tech Lead, Stanford University