hi jonathan,
On 09-Apr-99, Jonathan Hayles wrote, and I quote: "
> Thanks to Uffe for all the explanation re newsreaders. My only experience of
> the Internet is through browsers and e-mail; at home, that means Voyager and
> YAM.
> Now I have to say, YAM has fallen largely redundant because I have four
> e-mail adresses, all of which I access through Hotmail - via Voyager.
I can have 5 e-mail addresses and get my ISP server to forward them all to one
address.
> This all leads me to ask; haven't these text/data-only methods of using the
> Internet really become a bit redundant? Can't most things be done better
> nowadays through a browser?
Wash your mouth out! :-)
Personally I *like* small and simple. Next thing you'll be saying Windows
should be the standard bloat ware for others to emulate. Bigger is not always
better. What wins in the consumer wars is not always better. I like the idea
of small and lean programmes that interact well with other small and lean
programmes.
My motto is "Keep it simple stupid" or KISS.
Obviously I use Voyager to get access to the Internet, but why use such a big
programme for checking the mail? (Apologies to Ollie.) In fact if I have the
mail settings filled out I'm sure I would get more spam that way. Also it
could take longer for Voyager to load than for me to pick up my e-mail.
I can multi task with YAM quite usefully but I'd have to say that Voyager
really wants to be main dog on my system when it's running. (The back gadget
doesn't work when it's full size on the screen. - hmmm ... a sudden
thought... maybe I can fix that.)
> The only other programme I make a lot of use of is Amftp, for uploading
> web-pages - the sooner I can do that through Voyager as well, the better!!
> (Can't be difficult can it - I would have thought it would be a piece of
> cake in fact. If you can get browsers to DOWNLOAD and then interpret HTML
> and draw appropriate screens, I would think someone like Olli could write
> the code to get them to UPLOAD with his eyes shut?)
I don't know what you're doing but I download ftp all the time with Voyager.
(More text files!) I just click and load or am I missing some aspect of
difficulty here?
regards,
Julia
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