I am unreasonably fond of running X programs remotely; it's alwaysstruck me as one of the niftier bits of X, and I like to use it asmuch as possible. But even I have to admit that it's not always theright answer, and thus sometimes my rxterm script isn't what I want. For those times I have another script, which Iunimaginatively call sshterm .

Sshterm is the direct inverse of rxterm ; instead of using ssh to runa remote xterm , it uses a

One of the things that has happened around the university lately hasbeen a review of our campus-wide student email offering. You canprobably guess the result; pretty much everyone involved (especiallythe students) was very firmly in favour of moving to GMail or somecompetitor, provided that various side issues could be adequatelydealt with.

(Yes, some of these side issues are not trivial .But they are apparently significantly smaller than they used to be, andaddressable.)

There's a part of me that