Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 30/03/2004 16:18, Dave Washburn wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 15:23, Peter Kirk wrote:
>  
>
> > On 30/03/2004 13:18, Bill Rea wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Peter Kirk wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Easy: Mozilla 1.6, with the contributed builds listed at
> > > > http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.6. I'm not sure about the last
> > > > requirement, but that's an internal matter for the Solaris system.
> > > >        
> > > This just tells me you don't understand what you're talking about.
> > >      
> > Bill, I am not now a computer professional. I used to be, 15 years ago,
> > and I worked with a similar setup with terminal emulators to a (local)
> > Unix system. But we didn't do e-mail. So I don't understand the details
> > of what your problem is. I am aware that there are GUIs available for
> > Unix systems but it seems you choose not to use them. While I accept
> > that I don't understand the details, I don't like the tone of your ad
> > hominem remark "you don't understand what you're talking about".
> >    
>
> Peter,
> I'm afraid you're just digging the hole deeper with these comments.  Yes, 
> there are GUI's available for Unix, but not all dial-in Unix systems allow 
> them because of the load they put on the system.  Nyx, where I have had my 
> email address for 15 years, is one of them.  Thankfully, I don't have to dial 
> in to them and can now get my mail by POP3 instead of having to either dial 
> or telnet in and use a text-based client such as pine or elm.  But not 
> everyone has that luxury, and it's unreasonable to expect people to be able 
> to exceed the bounds of their ISP.
>
>  
Bill is Unix Systems Administrator, so at one level or another it is his 
choice whether to permit GUI access. I accept that he may have good 
reasons not to. But he has implied that his e-mail is stored on a 
Microsoft Exchange server and is accessible by IMAP. That surely implies 
that he can access this, as well as the Unix system, by dial-up if he 
chooses - except in the unlikely event that there is a general 
university policy against staff and students accessing their e-mail from 
home. Even in that case he has the option of forwarding his e-mail to a 
public ISP account.

I understand the situation. My e-mail is stored on a Linux system to 
which I don't have GUI access, but I use POP3 and SMTP, or I could use 
IMAP. This is the standard way of accessing e-mail worldwide.




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