[Sheflug] re: b0rked mail stuff (and speed)

["Craig Andrews" <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

>>So what I am supposed to do ? Wrap at 74? 76? Maybe 70? If quotes go to
two deep, that means you can have '> > ' >>which breaks lines at 76.. and of
course, it assumes we're all using 80-column terminals to read our mail
(hint: I'm not).

Why use word wrapping at all? If you wrap at, say 75 chars, those of use
using 132 char terminals get a skinny thin mail on the left of the screen.
The best editors out there autowrap the text, but save without line breaks
(vi, emacs, etc), so why should a mail client?

>Other people might do well >to be less anal (miaow :) and follow the maxim
'be liberal in what you accept, and strict in >what you send'... if I was to
configure my client to send 'email' in everybody's preferred format, I
basically wouldn't be >able to send anyone anything....

Yup. I am using LookOut Excess at the mo', which is fairly naff (it keeps
slipping to HTML mode). I accept anything as long as I can read it. Thats
what its about eh? Not pretty documents, just readable ones. As a rule, I
send out in plain text, non-word wrapped, so that I can read it at any
character width. If your mail client can't wrap lines on the fly, get one
that can!


>builds ago, and it looks like they're still improving (0.8 was visibly
faster, 0.8.1 is, hopefully 0.9 will be as well). The GUI >feels about the
same speed as GTK on my machine, and faster than xforms (well, lyx), and Moz
on the whole feels faster >than IE5 running on W2K Pro via vmware (take from
that what you will).

What spec machine? If you are running 500MHz w/ 128Mb or more, that seems a
fairly good comparison. On a machine with that spec, WinNT4 running in
VMware benchmarked as running 4% faster than WinNT4 native on the same
hardware. Of COURSE I took it with a pinch of salt, before you say anything.
But it did pretty well to get anywhere near 100% (I expected about 60-70%).
Again, take that how you like, but I think it is pretty good.

Craig

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