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Subject: 
Re: Silly lugnet autoemailerator question...
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Date: 
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:41:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, John D. Forinash wrote:
Oh, certainly. I'm just trying to cut down on the annoyance of the
autoemailerator. I suspect it's notably less annoying for folks who
just point the mouse and type X, and I really ought to migrate out of
the stone-age, but gosh and golly, I _like_ my unfrozen-caveman-
text-editor.

oh, please, don't! what MUA will allow you to do limits, *-hooks, PGP,
filters, colors, and anything else you can think of? :) I switched to
mutt two years ago (from mew), and never looked back :)

And besides, those people with their new fangled point-and-click stuff
can't reduce it to just one keypress, it's
one-keypress-and-a-mouse-move. :)

not to mention have to take their hands off the keyboard to read mail!
Silly guis... *grin*

Dan



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  Re: Silly lugnet autoemailerator question...
 
(...) Well, to give you an idea of just how deep my unfrozen caveman tendencies run, I finally switched to mutt about that time ago, too. From /usr/ucb/mail. [0] Hey, you'd be amazed what stunts you can pull with it! But not pgp (easily), which is (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Silly lugnet autoemailerator question...
 
(...) I think Gnus is the obvious answer! (...) True! It is great to have a news/mail agent that works just as well in text mode (via Telnet, SSH, etc) as in windows (both X Windows and the MS version). Fredrik (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Silly lugnet autoemailerator question...
 
(...) Indeed. Hm. (...) Ah, I completely forgot you could do this. (...) Oh, certainly. I'm just trying to cut down on the annoyance of the autoemailerator. I suspect it's notably less annoying for folks who just point the mouse and type X, and I (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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