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The advantage of desktop email is you control it. The server doesn't get to decide how it should be displayed, routed or filtered. Why are people willing to re
by glymor 18y ago
The advantage of desktop email is you control it. The server doesn't get to decide how it should be displayed, routed or filtered.
Why are people willing to relinquish control over something they use so much? I could understand if you are not technical: gmail brings things that have been in mutt for years to the masses. But this is Hacker News whats "hacker" about google deciding everything?
I find this annoying about HN as well, if this was usenet we wouldn't have to ask for features like notification of replies or kill lists we would have them already or have the control required to do them ourselves. RMS is right the whole cloud thing is a major step back it's walled us off from the backend.
- RK 18y agoI think the argument might be similar to why so many people here are using OS X rather than Linux. I happen to use Gmail + Thunderbird (IMAP) + Ubuntu.
- tdavis 18y agoYou might be surprised and/or horrified by the number of "hackers" who know nothing of things like Usenet, IRC, mutt, etc. I think it really hit me when someone posed the serious question, "What's IRC?" He was older than me. Don't get me started on "the cloud", either. Back in my day, we had to walk up hill, both ways, in the snow, to setup a mail server. And even then it didn't work.