Re: Ideas for a Mutt demo
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 04:59:17PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Joe Masters <joem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [071115 16:14]:
> > On 13:43 Thu 15 Nov , Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > On 2007-11-15, Joe Masters <joem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I need some ideas as to setting up a demo of Mutt for netphobic users.
>
> As much as I love the efficiency of Mutt (and Gnus), they hardly seem
> appropriate for anyone who even remotely might be considered
> "netphobic" or "one-who-is-intimidated-by-computers".
>
> For such individuals, a mail client such as Icedove is far more
> intuitive and far less likely to result in the loss or misplacement of
> messages.
You could also try pine / alpine. From experience, these are very easy
text based mailers which will make new users and power users pretty
comfortable, and support similar kinds of keyboard based commands (but
ones which are more likely to be logical to someone who doesn't live and
breathe vi / emacs).
w