On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
>
> I get the impression, though, that a lot of "the faithful" don't read /.
> much since the s/n ratio got so bad. Most of the comments seem to be
> newbies. The informal survey of mail headers done a while back by someone
> on this list may be more telling of use among Mutt's "target" user base.
Most *nix's come with pine installed by default. If you get a telnet
account somewhere you get pine, if you login to your uni account you
most likely will see pine. Reason? Maybe it has to do with pines
limited possibilities to configure (easier for newbies), which makes
it also the preferred MUA installed by sysadmins since it's likely
that fewer problems arise.
If you now consider that most people stick with their email client
and need _very strong_ arguments to switch to some other it's not
that surprising. I was using pine when i came to Unix/Linux simply
because _it was there_ and dropped it when i was disappointed with
it's PGP/GnuPG handling.
Maybe we should point out other areas where mutt is superior over
other MUAs and make them publicly available.
Ideas?
-- Holger
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