Ralf,
don't you think you should change a bit yourself?
It's worse than you believe, actually. All incoming email is in emacs
RMAIL on one machine and all outgoing email is sent from emacs on
another machine. So I actually retype emails when I reply. The reasons
are numerous, pointless, and historical. Web browsing is done on a
third machine. My mail master is deeply buried and tightly firewalled
so it has no browser installed. It doesn't even have a mouse since it
doesn't run X11, so it wouldn't be possible to "click on a link". I
do everything everywhere in a completely vanilla, unmodified emacs and
have for the last century or so.