I grew up with old-school email tools in Linux. The primary tool I used was Pine. Pine was simple, elegant, reliable, and insanely fast and lightweight. Of course Pine was a text-based email client only. To view graphics or html you had to invoke an external application. Pine also wasn’t a ...

After all the fuss with Outlook 2007's treatment of HTML email, you might be forgiven a resigned grimace at the "news" that Outlook does unusual things to your plain text emails, too. Surely it's impossible to mess around with the display of a plain text email (or the text-only version sent with you...

I remember visiting the signal box in the station in the mid 1960s just before it closed. The signal man told me that between the wars and in the 1950s the goods yard was full of wagons loading and unloading, and that there was far too much work and that the hours were long and hard. Yachtsman used ...