From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yw0-x236.google.com (mail-yw0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::236]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3AFCC79365 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-yw0-x236.google.com with SMTP id i12so39456085ywa.1 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:11:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=74U4DU5+0IVfp3F9WfCUgszEFoRLpU970ElgVy4snW4=; b=OY0V7fuSisjIy7Zx1+o9q7IO2/mS80AcrAJqGBJ8AE3KAagbyZ4BFiP4uitJ4pl58H 7/NPOsbDmN8XbNOCe5K+JykPakla6zEmr2T82xfHi33BZ1l0I0V81+SyjPUw/gTvddfS SFeQzE8eupN2IDTC22y2gXo2O6hfV/KjFgljrPQZOjUS3+2VRIfXL3AsgV8i8kG+Or9z ur6A3K7OsUWKtVLQH4S9ELfeyKpqnOO3qWLHS7QPxwrnWucCCKhVIUQgUUS3k2ixLZh7 nRCBVWrnPD5tNhTG6byg+mEFfMFaEpx1T9Ss9U3uMsqViCLzgQs4NcetEYksWcYzMaEa AZ1w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=74U4DU5+0IVfp3F9WfCUgszEFoRLpU970ElgVy4snW4=; b=MaSBVYsHR6hJKxChaqlZEMq1/4X8nrdU60h6RsWwFrMp3khKgm0Ngj48lPpawWXtH5 ypabhon5/zNatlM7ngyF8GFf2Y2yOET3V9FXrvBeG9lpvQqWOH1NHtRF6FnovRC2ioSQ 0rPmZnOxPc8TA9uQR8DCHG6H2dotOHPdqTGHaw+z45Y8qc69IdyyLbBcJMuAgOLpwYuq AoKYFsrTlxzql2IS8IYQP2miuE2OE3YnslYeWgKLBUvDInFE3Yt4HWwSKo5xOwRKQIb+ Y6/zF2CVJv2BT4ZggHcaN4mPMtsPh62seqgL3gymsvQKP1BcT2lVdNUr1fy97ytb22J/ hSuw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tLRFyChOBR+QSDAfxoBKMgy6w0HgFDnlL38AijRwO/u7XGnf498/5p/DyMCdpT7Zw== X-Received: by 10.129.90.215 with SMTP id o206mr14622221ywb.14.1466597468019; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (99-13-41-4.lightspeed.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net. [99.13.41.4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b7sm36978518ywf.45.2016.06.22.05.11.07 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:11:06 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: Kevin Carhart , Edbrowse Development Message-ID: <20160622121106.GA28300@archie.localdomain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [Edbrowse-dev] OT: Fastmail and the good old days (correction) X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:09:40 -0000 Woops! The memory size mentioned below is corrected to KB, not MB. Sorry. Hi friends, I was a fastmail user for about ten years until a month or two ago. When I began, they had a single interface which was totally accessible from the command line, but later they named that interface "classic" and introduced their "standard" interface. Soon that became the default and one had to ask for classic for a fully accessible experience. In recent months they began disabling several specific functions in the classic interface, so it became impossible to create a new account, maintain websites on fastmail, configre aliases or spam/virus tools, etc. One was told to use the standard interface to perform those functions. It was clear that by "classic," they meant "old-fashioned." I got nervous about becoming the last passenger with a ticket on the Titanic, so I abandoned fastmail before they abandoned me. Hopefully resolving the current issues on fastmail will lead to more general solutions on other sites as well. So far I remain a text console command line junky, but that world is rapidly shrinking, as everyone knows. No longer a groundbreaker, I've been morphed into a bitter old caretaker. I wish I had my first computer back. It was a Digital Group desktop box with a Zylog Z-80 8-bit CPU clocked at a blazing4.0 MHz, fully expanded to 64 KB of memory, with a Votrax VS-1 synthesizer. It originally used audio tape cassettes for data storage and retrieval. I added two eight inch floppy drives, and got it to run CP/M with speech access in the late 1970's. I wrote a grade 2 braille translator in C for it when the Perkie was announced (The Cranmer Modified Perkins Brailler), and it also provided me with a talking terminal to access the KU campus mainframe. Those were the days. Chuck -- Willoughby Ohio Temperature 66°F Conditions Scattered Clouds The Moon is Waning Gibbous (96% of Full)