<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sebastian Krause</b> <<a href="mailto:sebastian@realpath.org">sebastian@realpath.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="mailto:kent@songbird.com">kent@songbird.com</a> wrote:<br>> Not trying to "prove" something -- trying to give benefit of long experience<br>> in similar situations. Email is substantially more efficient, because it is
<br>> intrinsically more powerful. For example:<br><br>8) Staying in touch directly with the community from my OpenMoko<br>phone in a year using an expensive GPRS connection:<br><br>- E-Mail: Loading everything via POP3 or even better compressed UUCP
<br> on my phone, reading with my favorite mail client that suits the<br> display. Uses minimum bandwidth and I can cut the connection after<br> loading mail. Cheap.<br>- Web forum: Suffer with the web browser on a forum design not
<br> suitable to the small display. Using tons of bandwidth for every<br> request, staying online all the time. Really expensive.<br><br>Sebastian</blockquote><div><br>-E-mail: loading hunderts of e-mails with questions that have been discuted at least 300 times and hunderts of flaming e-mails, and maybe dozends of "i need this and that app" e-mails, just to see that there's no kews in the development of the navigation system (the info you where looking for)
<br>-Webforum: click on a shortcut in the favorites, log in, jump to category "application development -> navigation system", seeing that there's nothing new, closing the connection. With the support of rss this would be even better: open feedreader, scan through new posts in "application development->navigation system", close feedreader.
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