On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:05:16AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: >Hello All: > Now that I have your attention - I and friends publish a webzine: > http://www.frozen-north-linuxonline.com/ > > And we publish monthly. > We also have a local linux user's group and a mailing list. > A comment was made to the mailing list that mutt was "handicapped". > As you may well imagine, that comment was not received well. > > Is there anyone on this list that would like to contribute some > comments about the advantages of switching from something like > netscape mail to mutt? > > If you do so, use your own judgement as to whether you want to > send your comments to this list or directly to me. > Let me know if you wish to be quoted or if I should paraphrase > your comments. Feel free to be "colorful". > >I'm putting together a march column in which I'm going to talk > about my useage of vim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, lynx, slrn, ncftp, > and MC as my suite of tools, and I would like to user your comments > in that column. > > BTW: Sven is a "contributing columnist" and we are always looking > for contributing columnists. In the current issue, I write about > mailing lists and mention mutt there. > >Best regards >Tim
This may sound a little more harsh than I mean it. This isn't a
flame, just a statement of opinion; please take it as such...
One of the worst things that is happening to Linux (and when I say
"Linux" I'm including the BSD children and the rest of the new wave of
open-source OSes, software, etc) is people's apparent deep-seeded need
to legitimize it to Windows users (and when I say "Windows" I'm not just
talking about RedmondOS, but a certain mindset that prevails regardless
of OS).
Show them the mutt web page. If they don't see the advantage, well,
why waste time trying to convert them?
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