Hi
Some internal discussion here lead me to think that there's a small
problem with the nmh man page. The discussion appears below. Also,
the man page says:
Send bug reports and suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ech.edu.
But mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. Also, the web page at
http://www.mhost.com/nmh/nmh-bugs.html tells you what that mail address
is for, but doesn't actually tell you the email address itself!
So I'm guessing when I use the address above.
On 6 Dec, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Ah, thanks. That wasn't obvious to me from the man page:
> >
> > nmh is the name of a powerful message handling system.
> > Rather than being a single comprehensive program, nmh con-
> > sists of a collection of fairly simple single-purpose pro-
> > grams to send, retrieve, save, and manipulate messages.
>
> Just substitute the name of your favourite mailer for nmh and this
> paragraph could be a blurb for it. Except the collection of programs
> aspect.
Just substitute the name of your favourite MTA and it also makes sense,
though. E.g. substitute qmail. :-)
That's what I was trying to say. Given the intro sentence that says
it's a powerful new messaging system, then the reader is keyed up to
consider it may be more than part of a MUA. Because of that, I think
it isn't clear what class it falls into - MUA or MTA - when you read
the man page.
Writing clear manuals is an art, and I'm just being picky and observing
that this one has this (small) flaw. That's all.
Not much point in whining about it to you, though, so I've Cc-ed this
to the relevant people, just in case this tidbit of feedback might be
of some interest to them.
Cheers,
luke
