I can understand the need for a gui if I'm pulling up webpages or scanning images. But one of the things I liked about Nettamer was that the color ansi menu system left more lines of text on the screen, and if what you are trying to do is do email, that's a good idea.
Suse comes with 'mail client' that is nearly that simple, but it has a default white background with black font, trying to mimic white paper. Which is a bad idea cause paper is a reflector of light, while the screen is an emitter. the glare is rediculous. It does however, leave the original message on the left, and when you reply, opens a window on the right, so you can see the original post before you started messing with it. And if you change the bgnd/forgnd in Netscape's mail tool, it tries to do that with the webpages as well. Which'd be ok, but sometimes it only changes the background from light to black, but not a black font. cant read anything. So, a modular system, that did the text in text mode, and the surfing in gui would make more sense. Arachne came pretty close, but my local isp did something, and dos wont logon any more. Even so, it wouldnt do usenet. Which is kinda curious for a tool for lower power systems. the alternative to usenet is crap like the Yahoo's or AOL, and a few scattered hosts like Arachne's. I rather like Usenet, it feels kinda like CSPAN, no glitz. As recall, Opera dont have usenet either. the only tool which I found that had private mail, usenet, surfing, and online credit card functionality was netscape. I guess OE does that too, but I dont do windoz.
