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The fault here was entirely Stallman's own. He has some kind of byzantine but ideologically-pure protocol for reading his emails in batches, which he has to re
by CamperBob2 1y ago
The fault here was entirely Stallman's own. He has some kind of byzantine but ideologically-pure protocol for reading his emails in batches, which he has to request explicitly from someone or something that retrieves them for him.
You can't infer anything from this episode about the suitability or unsuitability of email for any particular purpose.
- nurettin 1y agoYou could simply fix it by marking unreads bold. Doesn't sound so byzantine now does it?
- dlenski 1y ago> He has some kind of byzantine but ideologically-pure protocol for reading his emails in batches, This caught my eye as well. I'm not sure what his objection to accessing email in a normal-ish way might be. Any ideas? My best guess is that it's something surveillance-related, but really not sure.
- int_19h 1y agoI think OP might be confusing Stallman's website protocol with that for email: > I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. (he describes his arrangements in detail here: https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html)
- rahkiin 1y agohttps://lwn.net/Articles/262570/ https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/ Is what I found