Go Fabio Go
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:11:16 -0400,
Davey Crockett wrote:
Theodore Heise a ?crit profondement:
| So I probably can't offer much. I used Slack for a box that
| served my own domain (heise.nu) for some 15 years, but keeping up
| the system bacame more work than fun. So I retired it last year,
| and signed up for a shell account on panix.com. I've used Unix or
| Linux of some flavor since about 1990, but never as a personal
| computing platform--strictly shell and command line. My server
| ran mail, news, and www, and that was about it.
Thanks for your input.
Your comment on your shell account is interesting because
personally I am finding myself using my shell on SDF (Systems
Dimensions Fortress - $1 for a lifetime membership) much more
frequently these days,
A long time ago I settled on PINE and slrn for mail and news.
One feature I like is that slrn can save posts to my IMAP folder
structure, and PINE can access everything. With lots of work
travel, I was frustrated with fragmented access to news and e-mail
(plus I wanted the ability to control my own spam filters), so I
set up my server to have one news spool (and mail archive) I could
access from anywhere. I also thought learning Linix system
administration would be fun--and it was, for quite a few years.
Today I still prefer the command line for many things. On top of
that, the local *.panix groups are full of interesting and clever
people. So I persist.
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Ted Heise Bloomington, IN, USA
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