On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:59:23PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by dinosaurs. > Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ. Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail. > Or do you just do "more" on /var/spool/mail? > > :) >
I use mutt these days - since the early 00s. It has great threading capability, good for reading these voluminous mailing lists. I was an elm user, prior to that. I never got into pine - one of those reasons I alluded to before was to use my editor of choice (emacs), which pine didn't allow. Of course, you might ask why I don't use the builtin email reader in emacs. I don't have a real answer to that - habit perhaps? Why do people think reading email as text is dinosaurian? I have tried some HTML-based email clients for various work email scenarios - I used Thunderbird for one job - which was OK for the work email, but would fail miserably on those aforementioned mailing lists, and that unmitigated disaster Outlook, which was mandated as the email client for another of my employers. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
