Hello!
Will Yardley has written on Monday, 23 November, at 21:51:
>My vote is for not including NNTP; like it or not, barely anyone
>supports it anymore (even when I worked at a fairly old school
>university, we phased our our NNTP servers several years ago, and all of
>my ISPs have shut down theirs), and there are newsreaders like slrn,
>which are very mutt-like.
Yes, it is a bit mutt-like but barely anyone uses it, as it has no real
e-mail integration, no good archiving means, no good encoding support,
i.e. nothing of all those features Mutt has, it's why plenty of people
use patched mutt as a newsreader, not slrn or anything else. Really, I
have tried slrn sometime and found it pretty much limited and even not
useable in some cases, only good newsreader was tin but it also has own
limitations. Well, no problem, NNTP patch can be still patch, Vsevolod
maintains it currently, but while it's a patch, there will be never any
translations for all those strings, and possibility to fix bugs in it is
also very limited due to the fact it's a patch which can interfere with
other patches. Although your reasoning is somewhat valid - NNTP now is
not used much anymore, people use social networks and IM nowadays, that
is also true for e-mail, it's used less these days, only spammers use it
a lot, not people, so it might be your reasoning will be against Mutt as
well, in few years, you will suggest to shut down Mutt project. ;)
With best regards,
Andriy.
P.S. As for myself, I have no problem to package patched Mutt and I need
no translations as I understand English well enough, all my concerns are
about other people who might be interested in it.
