From: Simon White (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 03:36:58 EST
31-Oct-02 at 13:30, Schmehl, Paul L () wrote :
> Yes, Simon, it is a GUI client, so only the other 99.99% of the world
> can use it. :-)
I know. I wasn't saying that everyone should use console email (although
between the lines maybe I was)... but once upon a time email was the
console, back in 1993 when I first got email it was via dmub unix
terminals and elm - then pine - then mutt.
Ridding myself of the need to use a pointing device speeds me up and
makes me more productive. Before the GUI (I ran DOS for years before
finally succumbing and running Win3.1) I was more efficient, and Linux
has brought me back to be more or less where I was then.
However above all, Mulberry is commercial software. I do not use a
single piece of commercial software in my daily work. I am in Morocco,
and Linux is the best thing that can happen to the IT sector here -
labour aplenty but no huge budgets to pay M$ and others the $$$ they
want for all the stuff that is deployed (pirate) here.
For development and education, Linux is the way to go. But sure, use a
GUI client if you prefer that.
-- [Simon White. vim/mutt. . GIMPS:73.65% see www.mersenne.org] When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. -- Martin Luther King - To unsubscribe, send mail to with content (not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users
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