Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > How would that _not_ drop whatever features my current (non-mutt) MUA > > has? > > Mutt, and it's KDE frontend kmail, are *far* more featureful and far > faster than Netscape is. Trust us on this and give it a try before > you knock it.
I don't think you heard the same thing I said. I'm NOT arguing that Netscape is better that your suggested MUAs. I'm simply saying that switching from one mailer to another, in addition to adding whatever features the new one has that the old one doesn't have, also drops whatever features the old one had that the new one doesn't also have. That was in answer your someone's (your?) question about why I was mentioning dropping features. That's almost a tautology, so I didn't expect much argument there. True, sometimes the dropped features set is a small set, but it's not usually an empty set. At a higher level, people can't just switch mailers to get new features; newer mailers don't always cover old-mailer features people use (even if the new mailer is better overall). And when they can switch, there may be more pressing needs (such as figuring out which kernel version minimizes the risk of IDE disk corruption). > Netscape is not a full replacement for any other mailer. I never said it was. I said (in other words) that for most values of X and Y in the set of MUAs, X is not a _full_ replacement for Y. Anyway, I'll try to avoid contributing too much more to this runaway thread. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]