Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi.

[Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com>]

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Skip was being sarcastic? Who knew???

But in answer to Steve's question, the only things I would add to Plan9 are
a mail program and Web browser that I can work out how to use even in the
trance-like state of supreme enlightenment that can only be achieved when
one has consumed far too much gin. Apple Mail & Safari work for me, more's
the pity.

On 15 October 2014 09:29, Wes Kussmaul <wes@reliableid.com> wrote:

>
> Oh, I knew that...
>
> :(  :(  :(
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>
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> On 10/14/2014 04:03 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
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> Wes, i was being sarcastic in my reply to the suggestion that iCloud (or
> any iSplat) products should be emulated on Plan 9.
>
>  -Skip
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> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Wes Kussmaul <wes@reliableid.com> wrote:
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>>  Skip, why settle for "might even be secure" while using the platform of
>> one of the companies that makes a practice of burglarizing your information
>> home?
>>
>> Why not use something like SpiderOak
>> https://spideroak.com/?utm_expid=14446725-7.EXfixEIwRZmffqInbsytsg.0
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>> - which lets you keep and control the encryption keys.
>>
>> Or perhaps even better, the owners of SpiderOak put out a toolkit called
>> Crypton https://crypton.io/ that lets you roll your own.
>>
>> Wes
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>> On 10/13/2014 11:08 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
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>> iCloud! Yes! Let's do that! It might even be secure on Plan 9 :)
>> On Oct 13, 2014 8:01 PM, "Winston Kodogo" <kodogo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  https://www.apple.com/nz/support/icloud/mail-notes/
>>>
>>>  Sorry, not a patch as such.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 October 2014 15:51, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
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>>>> Quoting Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>  Much as I love Plan9, only a masochist would use it for email.I agreed
>>>>> with
>>>>> Carmack as recently as 1997: "I spent a few months running Plan9. It
>>>>> has an
>>>>> achingly elegent internal structure, but a user interface that has been
>>>>> asleep for the past decade."
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  patches welcome
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>  --
>>
>> Wes Kussmaul
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>> “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.”
>>
>> 	- The Serpent
>>
>>
>
> --
>
> Wes Kussmaul
> The Authenticity Institute
> 738 Main Street
> Waltham, MA 02451
>
> office +1 781 790 1674
> mobile +1 781 330 1881
>
> “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.”
>
> 	- The Serpent
>
>

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