[TxMt] Re: Actual Forum?

podperson tloewald at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 14:30:53 UTC 2008




Hamster-4 wrote:
> 
> That's the advantage of a mailing list. You get to choose. You can use  
> whatever mail reader you want, using whatever protocol you want (imap  
> or pop), giving you the choice of high bandwidth access or low  
> bandwidth access.
> 
> Your outburst there makes me wonder if you understand how email works.  
> "pine or imap" makes no sense at all. Pine can be used for either imap  
> or pop, no there's no "or".
> 

I stand corrected. When I used pine it did not support IMAP ;-)

IMAP and POP are both pretty high-bandwidth if you've got a bunch of mailing
lists dumping into them, so it's hard to see where the choice is. You can
always surf the web using lynx.

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