On Tuesday 11 February 2003 15:16, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Yven Johannes Leist wrote: [...] > > old anyway so just switch to something newer" seems at least slightly out > > of touch with reality to me... > > Sometimes change is good. I was quite proficient with DOS > (Dr-DOS/Novell DOS + 4dos, Win 3.11) but made the switch to linux. > Why? Because it was better. It was 1994 so I installed Slackware. > Later, I moved to Debian? Why? Because it was better. > > Ever since I encountered pine at college (on SCO; yuck) I used that as > my email client. However, in 1998 I switched to mutt. Was it easy? > No. Am I glad I did it? Yes! (because ... it was better :-) > > Rejecting change simply because it causes some pain is short sighted.
Fully agreed, I'd never recommend anyone to stay with NS4 for the rest of his life, I merely took exception to the lack of compassion, especially when recommending a terminal-based client, which causes _heaps_ of pain ;) Cheers, Yven -- Yven Johannes Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
