Re: [Pan-users] Re: A very quick question...

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

> > > so we could have a pan-backend package,
> > > and a pan-frontend-gtk2 package, and a pan-frontend-qt package, and a
> > > pan-frontend-ncurses package.
> >
> > I really like this idea... then I could start using pan over ssh from work!
> > :-)
> 
> I was doing that from school with VNC over ssh, if you have the bandwidth
> it's quite reasonable (down 512k/up 72k on my home end)

yeah, but I want to go over a 28.8 dialup, attach to a screen session, and
read mail/start downloads that way.

and yes, I've looked at tin/rn/slrn/nn, and they all suck. (primarily due to
lack of multithreaded operation; so I can't queue background tasks). they
were fine enough back in the days when your news server was also your shell
server/mail server/devel server (back then I read news with pine anyway);
but when latency gets bad and files get big (which I would guess is just
about everyone's situation these days), their limitations show.

if someone can correct me, please do. :)

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
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