> > >MH was written by and for people who have a deep understanding of how email > >works, and who want to exploit the capabilities of email to the n-th degree. > >These people also tend to be pretty hard core about the fundamentals of > >software engineering, one of which is avoiding change for changes sake. > > I agree that was true maybe 20-30 years ago, but I am wondering: > What does Marshall Rose or John Romine use as an email client today? > Maybe they still use mh or nmh, but it sure wouldn't surprise me > if they don't (if we've lost Jerry Peek, then the game really IS > over). Hell, I met Brent Welch, the author of exmh, a few months > ago at a conference; he told me that while he still wants to support > exmh, most of the time his email client is PC-based... > > Well, since you asked, I am still using MH 6.8.4 on Solaris, often with exmh. I'm also running vintage MMDF as my MTA :-).
However, I'm also using Gmail, particularly because of its threading and spam-rejection, and also because people mail me documents so often (and Gmail provides a good in-browser preview). Back when MH was under active development, we tried hard to maintain backward-compatibility, particularly in minor releases. However, we would easily generalize an existing feature, or possibly add a new feature, as long as the default behavior didn't change (i.e., we didn't break things). This was important because incompatible changes affected our users' productivity (and also created a huge support load), and that's not a kind thing to do without a very good reason. In those days, many people would be logging into a single server, so they didn't have a choice not to upgrade. Installing an incompatible change meant spending a lot of time fixing things for our users, or training them on a new way of doing things. John
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