From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 12:30: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B3314D47 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:35:59 -0800 Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1007.bossig.com [208.26.241.7]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23862; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:29:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382C78EB.65C0C71B@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:30:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Ben Smithurst , Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing (was: i probably drew daemon's rage on myself) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Well, then,let's get this started right! ;-) > Just what *is* the best unix mail client? I use pine, even though i know > it's for neophytes. Mutt seems like to much trouble unless you really > need threads. I check for a thread before I ever reply to an e-mail. I see far too many replies because people are processing the list mail serially. The problem is answered on Saturday but we see responses until the next Wednesday. This isn't bad but it does increases the noise level in the list. The problem with Ariel's e-mail, which prompted the original comment, is white space. You have it but he doesn't. I don't think that depends on the mail program but the operator. You need to make your replies stand out from the quoted material. When you don't use white space (a blank line), some one reading your reply can't tell if your response is a continuation of a folded line from Outlook Express or new material. I guess some mailer's make it easier than others. I don't use their defaults anyway and so it doesn't matter which one I use as long as I can sort by thread. Kent > > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > >> He's using Pine > > > >That explains a lot. > > > >/me runs from the inevitable mail client holy war. > > > >-- > >Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > >ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -jonathon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message