Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:37:36 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b3 Message-ID: <199511280237.DAA26416@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199511271612.LAA16745@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu" at Nov 27, 95 11:12:53 am
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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
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