[X-Unix] CL Usenet and email

[William Enestvedt]

Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> 
> How many people, wonder actually use CL email and/or Usenet 
> clients on a day to day basis nowadays?
>
   If you have only an SSH link to a system, then a GUI client can be a
problem. And why bother, really, if you don't have to? You're freed from
most HTML mail and thereby most phishing schemes (if an embedded image
is tagged with a unique identifier in the URL), and for so many other
reasons (bloat, speed, network load, etc., etc.).
   Plus, it's harder for someone dropping by your desk to realize that
you're reading read a mailing list when it's displayed text-only in a
little terminal window. :7)
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI