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[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <00a201bd6d35$9460ad60$9e08379d@a-mikemi1.dns.microsoft.com> JoMi@msn.com writes:

> For a bunch of people that like to be on the leading edge of technology in
> our automobiles, some of us sure like to keep our computer technology in the
> dark ages (he says as he types on his 486/160:-)

I'm actually using DOS email code (KA9Q) running under OS/2 Warp.

It's fast, highly automated (using REXX) and I don't have to sit in
front of the damn thing like a trained monkey telling it what to
do next all the time.  It uses about 2% of a 486/33 which is also
the main fileserver and backup server for my home LAN.  Anything not
deleted by nightfall is parsed out by a REXX application and indexed
by Magellan, so I have keyword search capabilities for all my email.

Microsoft's paradigm requires me to access files by name and not by
content.  This is not how I work.

MIME (B64, UUENCODE) is handled in flight.  Audio, video and still
images are filtered out and discarded during downloads.

I get through around 500 emails a day, the majority being work-related.
I just couldn't do that with a GUI.  And I couldn't afford the bandwidth
if they were all in HTML or MIME-encoded.

I make an exception for MIME when it's used to send me something in
French or German using an 8-bit character set.  MIME from a US address
is likely to be deleted before being read.

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 Phil Payne
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