From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/597 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "A. L. Meyers" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Which one shall I choose? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:34:17 +0200 Organization: Meyers Consulting http://www.consult-meyers.com Message-ID: <87bsao1ck6.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> References: <8z5uq9vh.fsf@hotmail.com> <87ofep7vrr.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> Reply-To: "A. Lucien Meyers" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667542 7574 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:50 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.mail.mutt,gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: megazh-d-95.agrinet.ch Original-X-Trace: rex.ip-plus.net 1023388454 23419 212.28.158.95 (6 Jun 2002 18:34:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:34:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Accept-Language: de en fr it User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LRFf9qewTQxDMAfLvo3eVcswIes= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:737 Original-Lines: 38 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 737 Tue Jan 17 17:27:50 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:597 Archived-At: Peter Davis writes: > Tim Hammerquist writes: > > [...] > >> I've heard something different entirely: "Do one thing and do it well." >> >> But to look at something a little more definitive >> , the nine >> "tenets" of the Unix Philosophy: >> >> 1. small is beautiful >> 2. make each program do one thing well >> 3. build a prototype as soon as possible >> 4. choose portability over efficiency >> 5. store numerical data in flat files >> 6. use software leverage to your advantage >> 7. use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability >> 8. avoid captive user interfaces >> 9. make every program a filter > > By these tenets, MH is superior to all other mail programs. Indeed, > MH is far and away my choice. However, I'm sentenced to work in a > Windows environment, and I've never found an MH port to Windows. I > have this on my "to do when there's spare time" list, but so far, the > occasion has not arisen. If anyone know of an MH port for Windows, > please *please* let me know. Qmail people write that mh security is not very good. Is that true? Both gnus and mutt work well with mh type mail directories. Lucien -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. PGP Key fingerprint=F1C0 D9AE 1B18 1405 4DFA B4CC 6DC7 FF78 C76E FB15 To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": fissionable Serbian Noriega quiche security CIA anthrax FBI Albanian FSF