On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:54:07AM -0800, Brendan Cully wrote: > I'm still not convinced mutt should be a newsreader. The argument to include some form of NNTP support seems unbelievably simple and obvious to me. Individual usenet messages are essentially identical to individual e-mail messages, and to many, many users of usenet, reading and posting to Usenet groups is (from the user's perspective) 100% identical (or very close) to reading and posting to mailing lists. It's a marriage made in heaven. Caveat: I have not used Usenet in probably 10 years or so. I think the main argument against the NNTP patch (specifically) being included is that there are a number of ways in which it is deficient (compared to other mail readers), and as such it does not represent Mutt well. Perhaps if people could come up with a list of deficiencies, and some people could improve the patch to fix those deficiencies, there would be no good reason NOT to include the patch. After all, those who don't want the functionality can simply configure mutt without it... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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