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Date:      Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:44:30 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Mailer wars (was: Shell wars (was: What to tell to Linux-centric people?!'))
Message-ID:  <19990731124430.D64532@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990730031519.B2502@mad>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:15:19AM -0400
References:  <19990730125307.X93194@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990729231012.7681B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <19990730031519.B2502@mad>

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On Friday, 30 July 1999 at  3:15:19 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:18:07PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
>>
>> The difficulty of changing tools is one of things that annoys me about the
>> UNIX world.  I've a friend that keeps badgering me to use mutt over pine.
>
> I found mutt had one of the nicest learning curves around, actually.
>
> Or, at least, the nice /usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt file made
> it seem that way.

That depends on what you're used to.  I found pine impossible to use,
otherwise I would have left elm a long time before.  But mutt was
easy.  What does that say?  mutt is more like elm than pine is.

Greg
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