From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 18:47:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA23944 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:47:53 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA23936 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:47:47 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id DAA21798 ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:47:43 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id DAA10019 ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:47:42 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id DAA26416; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:37:36 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511280237.DAA26416@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:37:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511271612.LAA16745@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu" at Nov 27, 95 11:12:53 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1378 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu said: > Anyone try to use the mail window of the new netscape? It searches > for the mail spool directory in /usr/spool/mail. Any ideas on how we > can get get around this? I will probably have to duck under the table to avoid several pieces of furniture (sp?) by saying the following but anytime I see people raving about Netscape (I don't speak about you, it is a general feeling) I want to say this: Use a real mail programs to read mail. Use a real newsreader to read News. Don't use netscape. It is a pretty decent WWW browser (if you forget some stupid proprietary extentions) and *it should stay a WWW browser*. Netscape reminds me of all the integrated program like Synphony, Jazz and Framework that tried to do everything but the coffee and failed everywhere at some point. Netscape is big, bloated and come without sources. They forgot the Unix philosophy of KISS. I use it sometime when I need to see some graphical page and Lynx the rest of the time. I should recompiled Mosaic 2.7 to avoid Netscape but I'm lazy and it will be almost as big as Netscape due to Motif. Fire away... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #7: Mon Nov 6 21:08:06 MET 1995