Re: [Fsfe-uk] Administrivia: html duplicates

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Chris,

> What 'better' client?  Oh, mutt isn't perfect but it works over ssh in
> text only mode just fine.  I tried pine and Do Not Want.  Way back elm
> wasn't bad but it was a pig to build (no autoconfigure and on several
> systems I never got it to build at all).

Whilst you're listing text-based mail clients, there's nmh, but it
doesn't like HTML either.

    http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/
    http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/overall/whymh.html

There's not a lot of development work being done on it these days
though.

> Well, how about a social argument -- it gets people annoyed and they
> don't bother reading the messages?

In the pre-web, pre-HTML days, it was a major issue getting newcomers to
write readable text emails where the lines weren't too long, blank lines
seperated paragraphs, and sigs were kept under four lines.  I hate to
think what HTML has let them do these days.  I rarely get any unless
it's spam -- you can choose your friends  ;-)  But have had the odd
reply where someone's written at the top "My comments are in red", just
above the "My comments are in green" from the previous reply, etc.

Cheers,


Ralph.