There’s a Slashdot article about a comparison between PINE and GMail. PINE is a text based, terminal mode email program that’s fairly popular on Unix systems. I used it myself when I was running Linux; it can’t be beat for quick, no hassle access to your inbox.
Anyway, one poster went into detail about his elaborate setup for using PINE. It boiled down to that he can get to his e-mail from just about any system: everything from the super computers in the research lab to a PSP. He can even access his e-mail by transmitting the data over ham radio.
In order to always have SSH access, he keeps a copy of PuTTY, a free SSH program for Windows, on a USB stick that he always has with him.
In response to that, an anonymous coward posted, “…but since he’s carrying putty [sic] like it’s an epi-pen, he’ll likely have SSH access.”
It’s probably because I’m friends with Ashley, but I thought that was hilarious and worth pointing out to my non-Slashdot-reading audience.