[email protected] wrote: > Bill Wohler <[email protected]> writes: > >[email protected] writes: > > > >> Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: > >> (Half a year ago) > >> > >>>I've thought about the nmh target audience ... I guess my thinking is the > >>>ideal nmh user be programmers who want a flexible MUA that can make use of > >>>many of the features of the Unix command line. > > > >Way back when I was working at SRI in the 80's, our entire group, > >programmers, scientists, and support staff alike, used MH. Thus > >non-programmers could use MH, and that hasn't changed. > > But I bet that, like RAND, almost all, if all of your new users were within a > few feet of more experienced users, probably running terminals into a time > shared system -- no new users running a PC in Wichita.
No, I don't think our secretaries were that close to the developers in skill. None that I knew of had ever written device drivers :-). > AND, there was no MIME. > > So you had it a lot easier than contemporary developers. > > Norman Shapiro -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
