On Thursday, December 5, 2013 4:17:11 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03Dec2013 17:39, rusi wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 6:10:05 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > My first act on joining any mailing list is to download the entire > > > archive into my local mail store. I have a script for this, for > > > mailman at least. > > and you happen to own >1 thingys that have general computing > > functionality -- phones, laptops, desktops, etc -- do you sync > > all your mailing-lists with all of them?
> No. I'm using a laptops my primary host, and it has the mailing > lists (and all my email). It is usually on and fetches and files > my email; it also forwards _specific_ stuff to a separate mail > account accessed by my phone. > I used to use a home server, but the remote access, while fairly > transparent (script to "ssh then run mutt"), was irritating. And > when I didn't have remote access, very very irritating. > So I'm choosing the better environment with my email local to the laptop and > a select copy of important things (work and friends) copied to an account for > my phone. > [...] > > And inspite of all that it still sometimes happens that one has > > to work on a 'machine' that is not one's own. What then? > Fingers crossed the important stuff gets to my phone. If urgent I > can reply from that, and I'm somewhat up to date on what I care > about. The phone also has (disabled) access to my primary mail spool > for circumstances when the laptop is offline. When online, the > laptop empties that spool ad forwards particulars. When offline, I > can consult what's queuing up. > > The unfortunate and inexorable conclusion is that when the > > (wo)man <-> computer relation goes from 1-1 to 1-many, data and > > functionality will move away from 'own-machine' to the cloud. > > Will the data be subject to privacy-abuse and worse? Sure > > Will the functionality be as good as something one can fine-tune > > on one's own computer? heck no! > I'm striving to resist that for now. Privacy. Security. Dependence > on others' hardware and (not mine => wrong!) technical choices of > software. Thanks Cameron. I am not sure how to parse the last sentence but on the whole thanks for a fair balanced and honest review. I think I have similar sentiments, viz. I am not one to gush about the latest gizmodic blissiness, however whenever Ive resisted and been a late adopter -- color monitor, laptop, cellphone, credit card etc etc -- in the end Ive had to move with the time and not been better-off for my earlier resistance. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list