Brian Nelson wrote: > > ... but I don't think I could get our users to go over to a non-GUI > > program. > > Why is that? Because they've bought into the marketing pitch that > pretty graphics == better software? That's bullshit. There's no good > reason any user couldn't become more proficient with a text-mode client.
What I've found in trying to get GUI-dependent people to use mutt is that they resist having to memorize a bunch of keystroke commands (no matter how easy, and despite the fact that the most common ones are listed at the top of the screen!). They'd rather point and click; they know how to do that already, and they don't see why they should go to the (minimal) bother of learning a keyboard-based UI. This isn't an intelligence problem, either; some of these people are quite bright, but they don't see learning mutt as worth their bother when good GUI alternatives exist. And Sylpheed is actually pretty good; if I didn't need a text-based interface (for accessing my mail in an ssh session across the internet, on a slow enough connection that X forwarding is out of the question), I might use it myself. But since I need a text-mode MUA, I use mutt. Craig