ve6bbm/ve7tfx wrote: > > i think it's less a popularity contest than a desire to have someone > > interested enough to manage the website and packaging when the rest of > > us are all out in our rocking chairs on the porch, tapping our canes, and > > muttering about the good old command-line days... :-) > > But that's not at all what's being proposed. > > Or maybe my Alzheimer's is creeping up and I missed it. But I don't > think so.
you're right. but the point of new users (and of future maintainers, as alluded to above) is part and parcel with the question of relevancy that ken raised. if mh can't do what people want (need) from an email client, then there will soon be little reason at all to use it, and even less to maintain it. i can get away with using mh for work because i'm fairly picky about my chosen jobs, and i'm willing to tolerate a lot of pain to stay on the commandline. my wife gave up on mh for work some time ago -- she still uses it for her home mail, but i can see the writing's on the wall. i'd like to see new mh users because i'd love to see a larger potential population of interested maintainers, which would increase mh's relevancy, which would help guarantee that i'll still be able to use it from my rocker on the porch. (and, btw, i'm willing to give up some (well-documented) backwards compatibility to do that.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 40.8 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
