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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 1995 12:37:13 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: httpd as part of the system.
Message-ID:  <199503251937.MAA14246@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> "Re: httpd as part of the system." (Mar 24, 11:10pm)

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> > > > I would like to propose that we add the following two components to our
> > > > system in an effort to both:
> > ...
> > >   3. exmh (a tcl/tk wrapper for mh it also understands MIME)
> > 
> > Why would we add a tool to mh as part of the standard system when mh is
> > NOT part of the standard system?  It seems kind of foolish to me.
> 
> I really feel that in order to have an Internet Out Of The Box type
> system we do need a grahical interface to mail. This is 1995 and 
> not a throw back to the early 70's. 

Then we better not provide MH as the mailer since it is non-trivial to
use.  Something like PINE would be the mailer to use, but it doesn't
provide a GUI yet.

> >(And NO, we're not going to add specific mailers to the distribution.  It's
> 
> Hashed out by whom ??

The entire -hackers list.


Nate




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