Post B1iIAOJbJCkGCFrmlM by astro_jcm@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #B1iIAOJbJCkGCFrmlM by astro_jcm@mastodon.online
2025-12-28T13:33:25Z
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I had to. Sorry / you're welcome.
(DIR) Post #B1iIAV28KXvr26kR0a by astro_jcm@mastodon.online
2025-12-28T13:34:46Z
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(I used to use pine when I started my PhD circa 2005, no idea why but it felt cool)
(DIR) Post #B1iQkRuME9RfOjlQIa by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-28T18:32:08Z
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@astro_jcm Pine Is Not ELM.
(DIR) Post #B1iRU6PkTM5k3cDS88 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-28T18:40:21Z
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@astro_jcm I (like to imagine that I) miss pine and elm. But then I remember all the troubles configuring procmail to deal with that new problem of spam and scams, and html in email, and...But I do miss it's brutal simplicity of the superficial acts of reading, marking, moving to mailboxes, etc. Personally my email usage and complexity peaked 10 years ago, and since then, I spend effort to minimize it. I keep only the last 12 months of mail and in less than a dozen folders. And I wonder at the utility of all the authentication verify these days; as even EFF has pointed out, most of the big spammers and scam outfits do impeccable authentication, so the lack of - means little. Email is still wonderful, maybe the best service the Internet ever spawned (because it didn't; email predates the Internet by a good margin). If I separated out "commerce" junk mail (eg the dozen you get if you buy one pencil) my personal email is very easy. How to automate that is the question for me.
(DIR) Post #B1ic71JEO0133kMbI0 by mfr@mastodon.coffee
2025-12-28T20:39:23Z
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@tomjennings @astro_jcm hands up if your email signature still starts with double-dash-space-newlineđź‘‹