Re: Replacement Email Client

From	Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Replacement Email Client
Date	2020-10-27 17:10 +0100
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:43:43 -0400
Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:16:21PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > The ones I respond to are known to me and are legit --
> > organizations, businesses, government agencies, etc. -- that I do
> > business with.  To respond, I must switch to a web browser, login to
> > my email account (like gmail), find that particular email, and
> > enter the requested data either by keyboard, drop-down menu,
> > buttons, etc., then SUBMIT it.  This happens all within the email.
> > I never get forwarded to another web site. I always stay on the web
> > mail page.  
> 
> If you don't get a new page, then it was not a vanilla HTML form
> submission.  Those *always* give you a new page, as defined by the
> form's action field.  That's why people stopped using them.[1]
> 
> What you're describing sounds more like a Javascript button made to
> look like a form submission.  Those can do *anything*.
> 
> [1]I used to read slashdot regularly, and on slashdot, the front page
> had a bunch of news stories and a poll.  The poll was written as a
> vanilla HTML form.  If you participated in the poll, it would send you
> to a new instance of the home page, because a form *must* load a new
> page.  Doing that would lose my place, showing a new set of stories,
> even if I hadn't finished reading the ones on the previous instance.
> 
> At some point I wished fervently for the option to middle-click the
> form submit button to open the form's action page in a new tab/window.
> That never happened, obviously because web browser developers do not
> have the same priorities that I have.  They've proven that many times.
> 
> Eventually it became a moot point, because I stopped reading slashdot,
> and because web page designers have stopped using HTML forms.  They're
> just too limiting.  It's all custom Javascript stuff now.
>

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Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 01:10 +0200
  Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-25 01:40 +0200
    Re: Replacement Email Client Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2020-10-25 09:00 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-25 15:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-25 15:20 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-25 15:20 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-10-25 02:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-10-25 03:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2020-10-25 07:30 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 16:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Mark Allums <maa@allums.com> - 2020-10-25 04:40 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Oliver Schoede <oliver.schode@online.de> - 2020-10-25 06:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:30 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-25 06:30 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-25 14:40 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-25 15:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 18:40 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-25 21:20 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-25 21:40 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-10-25 22:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 01:30 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-26 01:50 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-26 02:20 +0100
              Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-26 02:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-26 03:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2020-10-26 12:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-26 13:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2020-10-26 13:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-26 15:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-26 15:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-10-26 15:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-26 21:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-26 22:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-26 22:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-26 15:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-26 16:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 23:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-27 09:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 12:50 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 23:20 +0100
              Re: Replacement Email Client Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-10-27 02:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-27 10:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 21:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-27 22:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-27 23:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-28 05:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-10-28 13:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-29 18:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-11-03 10:00 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2020-10-28 00:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-28 09:40 +0100
                Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements (was: Re: Replacement Email Client) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-28 12:20 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements (was:  Re: Replacement Email Client) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 12:50 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-28 14:30 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 16:00 +0100
                Re: Free-services lead to increased RAM and CPU requirements John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-28 16:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-28 13:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-28 14:40 +0100
              Re: Replacement Email Client Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 12:50 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-27 17:10 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-27 17:20 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-27 17:40 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-27 20:30 +0100
                Re: Replacement Email Client Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-10-27 22:40 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2020-10-26 06:00 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-10-27 14:00 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2020-10-25 07:00 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-25 09:10 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-10-25 11:50 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 12:00 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-25 12:10 +0100
            Re: Replacement Email Client Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 05:50 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 10:20 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2020-10-25 12:20 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 19:00 +0100
      Re: Replacement Email Client didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 20:10 +0100
        Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 01:10 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-10-26 06:50 +0100
          Re: Replacement Email Client <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-26 10:50 +0100
  Re: Replacement Email Client Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2020-10-25 13:20 +0100
    Re: Replacement Email Client Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 19:10 +0100

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