-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07-Oct-2002/06:26 +0800, Tim Kehres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Wow - people still use elm! :-) Anyway, there is a simple solution to >this - use either POP3 and/or IMAP4 capable clients. SSL is supported on >top of both protocols.
I use mutt. When I press "r" for reply, the reply composition window opens while my finger is still on the key. On the same hardware, GUI clients just cannot be that fast. i get a lot of mail. I like to handle it quickly, without my mail client ggetting in the way. I've tried Netscape, Mozilla, Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, Evolution, Slypheed, Balsa, XFMail, and so many others that I've forgotten their names. If you can type, character-based mailers are a lot faster than those that either lack a good set of keyboard shortcuts, or react too slowly to the shorcuts that they support. I can type. It's faster for me to keep my hands on the keyboard than it is to keep reaching for the mouse. When I have to talk someone through a procedure on the computer, it grates on me every time the user reaches for the mouse to do something like move to the end of the line instead of pressing the [End] key. If you don't know the keyboard, by all means keep reaching for the mouse. But those of us who know our way around the keyboard can be a lot more productive with character-based mailers. Those mailers typically do not support HTML without external help. Most HTML mail is unnecessary anyway. It's simply the default mode of the mailer, and not a concious decision by the sender to include formatting that makes the message more useful. It typically does not add meaning to the message, it makes things more difficult for digest subscribers, and it makes more work for mailing list archive software. In some environments it makes sense, but a Linux mailing list is not one of those environments. Most of the questions and answers on this list do not pertain to GUI configuration dialogs. They pertain to basic information and text file configurations. an occasional screenshot may come in handy, but these screenshots will not be included in the archives, so their utility is limited. On this mailing list, text-only should be the norm. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE9oOEdpCpg3WyUI50RAkqNAKCWr34j++FWJraQo+sLT1QEwhX1VgCfUQIG E8qmuWAdtGVBXVw1wSrHKN0= =CUA6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
