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Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

> this made me think.  Is anyone working on a webmail interface? I
> looked at squirrelmail, but it's in php.

oh, boy, it is SLOW. You can get gray hairs just reading mail in 
squirrelmail.

it's weird, our machines, and networks, and servers, and just about 
every measure, are at least 100x, and sometimes 1000x, faster than they 
used to be just 10 years ago. But the software is getting SLOWER. Now 
there's a magic trick. (oh well, that rant has already been visited by 
ousterhout, 10 years ago, when ... never mind).

"No matter how fast I make the hardware, the software guys piss it away" 
-- famous superomputer designer.


ron