On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Dwight Johnson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> >
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 4 Apr, Rachel Greenham wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's just crashed on me once too often while I was writing an email. This
> > > > is 4.5 as comes with SuSE 6 by the way and is probably the least reliable
> > > > piece of "production" software I have ever used. I'm almost tempted to
> > > > use Outlook out of spite, but it really would be spite as I have a
> > > > perfectly good email client here on my Acorn and I don't know why I ever
> > > > stopped using it.
> >
> > I'm well aware of PINE's feature set. In terms of functionality it's pretty
> > definitive, but its user interface *is* apalling and although I *could* get
> > used to it, I don't want to. :-)
>
> I have used Pine for all of the three years it has been since I came
> across to Linux from DOS/Windows and, to my taste, the user interface
> is quite good. I have tried quite a few other mailers but have found
> nothing I like nearly as well. I vastly prefer a key command interface
> to one based on clicking the mouse -- it is so much faster and I
> prefer to work fast and be as productive as possible. In fact, one of
> my main reasons for coming over to Linux from DOS/Windows was to get
> back to the vastly greater productivity of the command line and
> text-based programs. I do use X, but except for my browser, X is
> primarily a platform for mounting as many xterms as I may require to
> use VIM and other text-based tools.
>
I couldn't agree more with Dwight's comments about speed and productivity.
On the MS side I used Netscape, Eudora and Outlook, and after discovering
Pine I use it at work exclusively even though I have my choice of any of
the Windows programs.
Later, Greg
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