[plug] GUI vs text mail readers

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:25:41PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> Pine does mime, html etc. You can view attached images easily.
> Its faster to display and control and any WIMP system. You can use a mouse
> to point-and-drool if you really must.
> </rant>
> 
>   Ok, I'm a CLUE snob. Why? We all use netscape and not lynx for web.
> But am I a dinosaur for preferring a text-based mail reader?
> Why do some people refuse to consider one? 

Well, for me a text-based mail reader (in this case mutt) is about 10x (or
more) more productive than a GUI mail reader like Netscape. Everyone is
entitled to their choice but I must say Netscape is a particularly poor
one. Why?

	- it's incredibly slow
	- no where near the configurability of something like mutt
	- it breaks. eg: I had a couple 5Mb+ attachments come in and Netscape
	  would take *forever* to save them to disk. Not only that but it
	  failed (with no real reason) a couple times also. So I opened my
	  mailbox with Mutt, and 2 secs later the attachment was saved. BTW,
	  this was the catalyst for me to dump Netscape mail forever. I even
	  removed communicator and replaced it with the stand alone navigator
	  ;)


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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