From: gsf@fruct.us (Gabriel Sean Farrell)
Subject: [sup-talk] Persistence between IMAP clients
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:12:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080207201234.GB18001@manheim.library.drexel.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202407800-sup-6982@south>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:12:43AM -0800, William Morgan wrote:
> Why is it that people are so excited about having an email clients with
> this crazy client/server architecture? We don't demand that of any other
> console program we use.
Let's see, what console programs do I have open right now? Mutt, irssi,
lynx, tintin++, and btlaunchmanycurses. We've already discussed Mutt.
irssi is a great example of a console program that acts as a client to a
server. lynx is an example of the most commonly understood
client/server relationship today. tintin++ is a mud client, and the
improvements it has over simple telnet clients in the specific domain of
muds could serve as a model for others that rely on ssh/sftp/etc for
other domains. btlaunchmanycurses is a curses bittorrent client and,
being bittorrent, connects to other clients instead of a server.
Nonetheless, it demonstrates another protocol that I choose a console UI
for.
Even Vim provides the option of editing via sftp and scp, essentially
creating a client connection to files on a server. It's a pretty
fantastic feature that I recommend you try out if you haven't done so
already.
> If you can run a sup server somewhere, surely you can run sshd there
> instead. The only difference would be UI lag on slow connections. Is
> that the big win?
The ability to access these programs over ssh is part of the reason I
use them, but I prefer running them on the local box because UI lag and
dropped connections have frustrated me enough that I'd rather not deal
with them when I don't have to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-04 15:12 Gabriel Sean Farrell
2008-02-04 18:46 ` John Bent
2008-02-05 21:03 ` Gabriel Sean Farrell
2008-02-05 16:42 ` William Morgan
2008-02-05 19:12 ` Magnus Therning
2008-02-05 19:51 ` William Morgan
2008-02-05 21:11 ` Gabriel Sean Farrell
2008-02-05 22:02 ` William Morgan
2008-02-06 22:37 ` Gabriel Sean Farrell
2008-02-07 8:45 ` Marcus Williams
2008-02-07 18:12 ` William Morgan
2008-02-07 20:12 ` Gabriel Sean Farrell [this message]
2008-02-07 21:09 ` Marcus Williams
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