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Re: Poll: personal convenience vs. global improvement of docs



On 14:35 Mon 29 May 2006, Seth Williamson wrote:
> But I am starting to wonder about the ratio of payback to 
> investment. 

This is true with even Linux itself. We could have spent our time watching
movies or exercising or just relax or play a game instead of staring at the
screen and work our fingers hard but forever retaining our 'spare tire'. 

> trying to get mutt to send and retrieve gmail properly and I guess I 
> will eventually get it, but I couldn't help notice that, while I took a 
> break in working on mutt, I was able to configure Kmail to do the job in 
> about 90 seconds.  Now, maybe mutt will eventually save me time on my 

Many things that can be done under windows for 90 seconds could take 9 hours
under Linux. 

> daily e-mail work--I don't know enough about it to say for sure.  But I 
> have to wonder if that speculative savings will outweigh the time I've 
> invested in figuring out how to get it to work in the first place.

Except for the reason of fun or a sense of achievement or merely show off,
otherwise, a tool is merely a tool. 

> else.  For me, it's freelance writing.  For another person I know, it's 
> designing gardens; for another, it's ornithological research, etc.  If 
> your life and your career impel you to focus mainly on some other job 

True. Presumably many mutter users are full-time network/system administrators
and they have endless hours on theirs hands to tinker with mutt and other
tools. I am tied up in other jobs and more time spent on mutt means less time
for them. 

>you naturally 
> want to spend most of your time on your final goal, whatever it might 
> be.  
agree. 

So this poll is all about making mutt easier and it could be much better if
mutt can come with a configuration wizard and sensible default settings (for
example with gmail, send-hooks, attachments). 

Let's vote for a change and take a look see where this change can take us. 

-- 
regards
phyrster