Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (303 mails)

["Adrian Wells" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Insisting on an offline system has all sorts of issues which
> do not appear to be thought through.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this Mark. I would always urge
users to use "off-line" (i.e local email server) as opposed to on-line
(hotmail et al). One has complete control over virus scanning, corporate ID,
backup & duplication control (important for 'professional' users), access
etc. Although becoming less of an issue (although I see broadband soon
becoming as slow as modems), is the unnecessary use of bandwidth. On top of
this I would also recommend an OE (or similar) reader as I've not yet found
a web based reader to be as fast, easy and familiar to use, there just too
clunky. Although they can be more reliable (I normally set these up as a
back-up where the email server has the option).

Hope you all having a good one
Adrian