On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:31:37 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > Michael's "right-click+Del" hotkey in Arachne make this a quick and > painless operation that I go through everytime I download email.
It may be painless, but you couldn't call it "quick". I use Arachne for my email now only because I now longer go through the volume of mail I used to get and because I no longer have a shell acount. In Pine you can go down through a list of a hundred emails and mark them for deletion simply by holding down the "d" key and get the job done in the time it takes to do four or five with Arachne. This is Pine from a shell account. Pine is a very robust tool even with very minimal equipment. It's much easier in Pine to make mailing lists, nickname files, and do routine chores. For instance Pine takes you automatically to the first unread message in your "inbox" so you don't have to scroll down a long list of previous messages that you've been too lazy to move or delete. Arachne is an adequate tool for low volume email, a really handy little package that I enjoy using. But if I was having to deal with a big volume of email it wouldn't be much fun at all. It still bugs me that my old ISP got sold out to a corporate giant that cancelled my shell account access without warning or recourse. One day it just didn't work anymore. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
