Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

[Michael ODonnell]

Just a quick followup.  Ben wrote:

>Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links.
>VNC is a common choice for X stuff.

...and I want to confirm that VNC is indeed able to
push the bits efficiently enough that Thunderbird is
now tolerable.  As I mentioned, some other X apps seem
to work OK directly over the wire (ie.  X server at
home, X client at work) but not Thunderbird.