LYNX-DEV best route to email

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what David Woolley said:

> In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> from "N.NEELAKANTAN" at Jun 29, 97 03:05:39 pm
> 
> > This is especially for the web based email
> > services like hotmail, usa.net, valise.com
> > during the send command.
> 
> > Both my ISP provider nor the
> > web-based free email providers are
> > unable to solve the bug.
> 
> Some background information might also be useful, as using US based
> web servers for email doesn't seem to be the best way of getting email
> connectivity from somewhere which is unlikely to have good connections
> to the USA and where phone calls are expensive.  In particular, if your
> main requirements are for email, a shell account is unlikely to be the
> best solution.
> 

I didn't quite follow this last.  Are you saying "if your main
requirement is for email get POP mail service over a PPP
connection"?

The hotmail service, I believe, is an http-accessed gateway into
internet email.  I have suspected its main attraction is to
people with PPP and a browser but who have for one reason or
another never completed the installation to the point that mail
works.  This should not include most people with Lynx access on a
multi-user system.  My first reaction to this post was "If you
have access to a shell account, hotmail.com is a waste of your
time; use Pine, Elm, emacs or some other real mail program you
can run in your shell account."

While I suspect that there is usually some alternative that is
preferable to these free email services, I am not sure that the
answer is always to dump your shell access.

--
Al Gilman

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