Mailers

[Shannon West]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Koontz John E
>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:46 AM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re: Lakota wa- 'variety object'
>
>Sooner or later I will be forced to switch to the University's webmail, I
>suspect, as the ancient Sun Unix terminal server I use is on its last
>legs, and from time to time the University sends out ominous announcements
>about the desirability of conversion.  I've been avoiding web mailers
>since I was first forcibly converted to the Hotmail web mailer by MSN.
>Under its fat-crayon graphics this is a feature-less piece of garbage
>basically best suited to sending sequences of messages on the order of "Ya
>me 2.  How R U. :-)."  You can even save several of them in the one saved
>messages folder they allow you - I mean U.  You can't download the
>messages to your own system.  No wonder the service is free.  It's
>worthless.  The main purpose of Hotmail seems to be to keep you from using
>Outlook Express and thereby falling afoul of its security holes.

Even if you give up Pine, you should be able to download your mail into
something useful like Eudora and avoid the pain of webmail. I use Outlook
(not Express) and haven't had any virus issues - though I'm smart about
attachments, even if there're from someone I know, I won't open them unless
I get a personal message too - and I quite like it.

Hotmail can actually be downloaded into Outlook Express thereby causing you
to have all the security issues and all the downloaded spam and viruses all
in one nice place. Again, if you're smart about it, OE for Hotmail is still
better than webmail.

I really really hate webmail. Can you tell? ;)

Shannon