Email Servers and Mac OS X: "Why did I (and why might you) want to set up a mail server on Mac OS X? In my case, I had a local ISP which hosted my domain name and provided a POP account for my domain on their mail server. At home, I had a DSL Internet connection and a small LAN behind a NAT firewall router. My LAN consisted of a G4 tower and a laptop both running Mac OS X. I frequently check my mail from my G4 tower at home, my Windows 2000 machine at work and my laptop from home, work or just "on the road."

This is exactly my situation. The author sets up his Mac as an IMAP server so that the mail pulled from his numerous mail servers is available to other machines as well as mail.app on the Mac.

There's a good bit of information on the net about configuring an IMAP server on the Mac to achieve email freedom: "What we need is a way to separate the mail store from the client program. It is possible to use IMAP with most clients, but then the email is stored only on the server, and you can't get at it when you're not online.   7:28:15 PM    

Why I'm using Pine : "Lynx can now be used with Pine Version 4.10 to view URLs received in e-mails. Your Pine configuration must first be set to allow URL viewing from messages."

I spent some time using elm, which I had never played with before. You can configure Pine to use vi instead of pico as the editor plus you get the URL link. Elm (and Mutt) don't have the integration so easily available.  7:07:08 PM    

JOHO the Blog: "In a nutshell (i.e., annoyingly inaccurately), Lessig proposes a 10-year copyright for software, after which the source code would be released into the public domain. Winer thinks this would unduly damage small software houses: "If we have to publish our source code the users won't pay for it. Ten years isn't enough time to create a new market." And that would mean the end of the major incentive for innovation. "

As someone who works in an industry where IP depends on patents, not copyright, I can sympathize with both sides in this discussion. Under a patent, your work becomes public when the patent is granted. Competition has access to your knowledge, they just can't use it directly. With copyrighted software where the code is hidden, no one else ever gets to benefit from your knowledge.

The patent system does serve to diffuse knowledge and spur innovation. Perhaps it would be a good model for the software industry, where code rather than algorithms were patented. You could innovate by coming up with better code to compete with the algorithm.  6:53:40 PM