Re: e-mail application

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Richard wrote:

> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
> Hi
>
> I know of more than a few people who don't use web browsers.
>
> They aren't cranks, they just don't use them. That's why I've got an
> interest in e-mail apps and how they work. There was a time when e-
> mail was the only web bound form of communication. Now we expect
^^^

Errrr the WWW is NOT the Internet and vice versa. There was a time when
the was no WWW but the internet supported email, usenet, ftp, remote
login, remote X sessions, etc ,etc,. Just as it does now in fact but with
added living colo(u)r WWW - even on my lynx browser :-)

> full colour graphics to just pop up on our screens in an instant.
>
> Anyway.... it all helps to understand Tcl/Tk Qt and other
> programming methods to do with Linux. I'm especially interested in
> the GUIs that can be produced that make Linux and X-windows easy to
> use :-)
>

<SOAPBOX>
Pine, mail, and loadsa other REAL Mail apps don't use such things as
Tcl/Tk or Qt or anything else. Ease of use is a personal thing. I have
never understood how anyone could handle more than a handfull of messages
at a time with the bloated slow click-ridden buggy graphical s/w that is
user friendly. I handle at least 200 email messages a day, and I have
found Pine to be the best, most productive mail tool I have ever used (and
I've written a couple). Oh and in the last 5 years it has never once
trashed my mail. Our Nutscrape users habitually ask for restores of system
mail boxes from our backups!
</SOAPBOX>

sorry about that - I'll go and lurk under a stone and be quiet.

Jim

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