On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
> There's one thing I know extremely well. The vast majority of
> users *hate* learning a new mail interface. This is why we
> still have (very non-technical) users who use mm, despite the
> fact that it's a horrible mail reader by modern standards and
> can't even understand MIME. They've been using mm since
> TOPS-20, and that's what they understand.
Hey, don't diss MM! It's largely unusable for new mail today
because it hasn't been updated for 10-15 years, but as an
interface to (old) large plain text mail archives, it's still
a superior interface IMHO, and I still use it a lot for that.
Show me another e-mail client that can do "head all sub bach
digest from john smith"! And it can understand Mime or at
least display it correctly if you pipe it through Metamail...
I even considered stripping MM's interface and adding it on
top of Mutt or some other newer free client, but there were
license issues and the idea probably wouldn't have merited
the efforts anyway, but still...
Thomas Gramstad
thomas@ifi.uio.no
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