i agree.  squirrelmail has nevr been my friend.

brucee

On 2/5/06, Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>
> > this made me think.  Is anyone working on a webmail interface? I
> > looked at squirrelmail, but it's in php.
>
> oh, boy, it is SLOW. You can get gray hairs just reading mail in
> squirrelmail.
>
> it's weird, our machines, and networks, and servers, and just about
> every measure, are at least 100x, and sometimes 1000x, faster than they
> used to be just 10 years ago. But the software is getting SLOWER. Now
> there's a magic trick. (oh well, that rant has already been visited by
> ousterhout, 10 years ago, when ... never mind).
>
> "No matter how fast I make the hardware, the software guys piss it away"
> -- famous superomputer designer.
>
>
> ron
>

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