[olpc-software] graceful handling of out-of-memory conditions

[Havoc Pennington]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> I'm seriously considering abandoning evolution at this point.  For what,
> is the question.
>

While I won't bother to do a web search and quote stats ;-) I have the 
impression that in the US people only use these Outlook-style mailers, 
IMAP, etc. if their email account is provided by either school or work; 
personal accounts are predominantly web mail of one kind or another.

On top of that, it seems to be widely accepted that teenagers talking to 
teenagers these days use IM instead of email virtually always, using 
email only to talk to adults or web stores or what have you.

What this means is that a kids' laptop in the US could easily just punt 
and say "get a hotmail/gmail/yahoo account"

I won't pretend to know how email fits in to One Laptop Per Child, but 
if a "thick client" mail app is uninteresting to US teenagers, perhaps 
there are creative ways to avoid needing one on the global laptop too.

Possible questions, Where does the IMAP server live in the envisioned 
One Laptop Per Child deployment? Could a webmail server live there 
instead for example? To what extent will the kids be using some sort of 
chat, vs. email, and who will the kids be chatting with or emailing?

Havoc