Roger Turk wrote:
>
> Michael Polak wrote:
>
> >>I think that most people will prefere graphical mail composer - to stay in
> graphics mode when doing Internet things. My monitor requires cca 1-2
> seconds to switch from text mode to graphics and back....<<
>
> I do *all* my mail reading and composing offline. Don't even like to fill in
> the "feedback" forms online as the editing capability is not there and the
> message is not saved on the computer. I have lost more "eloquent" feedbacks
> because of something that happened and I could not duplicate because the
> eloquence had been lost.
>
> In other words --- mail composer and reader should be an offline text mode
> function!
But you don't need Arachne for that - you can configure your system to
use
pine or mutt or elm or whatever in text mode, when you are offline. I am
not against text mode applications, they are very useful, but there is
nothing more to say in this field: everything was already written....
