A Man and his Mutt

A Man And His Mutt I was just curious if it was just me or if anyone else thought that the graphic for this new article looked like it read 'A Man and his Muff' ?? You can read the article here .

First thing I thought also. (heh)

Mutt sounds loke mullet

:-)

"A man and his mullet"

Etienne

Being one of the digital age who believes that both power and elegance can come out of technology I disagree with your view. Anyone who thinks that typing, key mapping, and other tricks make using text based utilities cool and fast is under great delusions. Mac finally comes out with a killer interace and infrastructure design and you want to pull everyone back to begining of the computing text based utilities. You can get power and speed if you design products well. You can have the best of the both worlds if you try hard enough!

At some point you are right, computers should make things easier and a low entry for everyone. However with all those gui trained wizzards is one big problem they are scared when they see a prompt. In my workfield (Networking) you can do a lot with gui's and management tools. But sometimes you can't escape the command prompt. I prefer a simple email client with to gui **** and def NO html enabled stuff. I used Eudora Pro for ages but the new versions sucks bigtime. Replying on HTML enabled emails doesn't work like it should...

At some point you are right, computers should make things easier and a low entry for everyone. However with all those gui trained wizzards is one big problem they are scared when they see a prompt. In my workfield (Networking) you can do a lot with gui's and management tools. But sometimes you can't escape the command prompt. I prefer a simple email client with to gui **** and def NO html enabled stuff. I used Eudora Pro for ages but the new versions sucks bigtime. Replying on HTML enabled emails doesn't work like it should...

How very true. You have put it very eloquently.

Rahul.

anyone who thinks that clicking mice is cool is also under great delusions.

How much faster CUI's are.

You are entitled to your opinion. I have seen and used many Unix email clients and text based utilities. Your comment is about as valid to me as the statement Linux is a Windows killer. Text based utilities are not easier or better. They may have speed but no elegance to them. Kind of like your statements.

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Just to offer a contrary opinion...

I use a Sun workstation at work, and an old PowerMac at home.

One of the main reasons I am thinking of finally buying a new Mac, is is because I want to use Mutt on it!

Also, I know another Mac user who, now that he is using OS X, spends most of his time in a terminal window...

So, I guess it depends on how you use your machine. My particular workflow and style fits very well with Mutt. Eudora, Outlook Express, and others, I find to be clunky by comparison.

I use mutt because I keep my emails
on the mail server. Even with
roadrunner, opening netscape etc
is not enjoyable. IMAP with
Outlook/Eudor is too slow with
thousands of mailing list emails (
and they leave copies locally.)

Anyway, NO gui mail client has
save_hook, fcc_hook, simple text
based address book (with group ability), vim/emacs as email
editor (and any other text editor),
configurable key-bindings, everything
with one key stroke (with macros)
...

It is the flexibility and features,
not the CUI, that beats GUI mail
clients.