Monday afternoon random thoughts

Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:18:13 -0500 (EST)


Sigh, once again I'm stuck between usability and feature set...
This time it's email clients... PINE has the best user interface
for text-based mail clients out there, and while I'm a bit biased,
I think it's better than most graphical ones out there too (because
it doesn't require a mouse!).  MUTT however is quite a bit more
powerful it seems, and has the specific coolness of threading that
I'm deciding is important now that some of the discussion's I'm
trying to follow are getting, shall we say, messy.  But MUTT is a
lot more difficult to use and configure, and I always get the
feeling that my computer is going to catch on fire if I hit the
wrong key (I never feel that way in PINE, even when I start typing
randomly at the menu screens).  Sigh, I guess I just can't win...
=P

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Edward Glowacki				glowack2@msu.edu
GLLUG President				http://www.gllug.org
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
                -- Jules de Gaultier