Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <This is definitely off-topic (who was that said I was single-minded?) but
> <for a fine example of bletcherousness, try the source to the pine mailer
> <(here also known as pain, or Pain In Neck Email). Find the 70K source fil
>
> that proves any tool is a hammer. I've written good code using BASIC but
As my friend Lizard puts it, if the only tool you have is a hammer,
every problem looks like your thumb.
The only mail program I can use in terminal mode with my ISP is PINE.
I despise it, especially the fewkin editor, PICO, (sumbitch won't let
me use vi to edit messages). I'm scheduled to get a cablemodem
installed in three weeks, when _I_ start making those decisions (and
maybe get a decent newsfeed -- an even bigger gripe I've got with my
ISP). (Hell, even with Tandy Xenix 15+ years ago, I could set my
editor for mail's ~v command -- never had to, since vi was my
preferred editor then and now).
--
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Received on Sat Jan 16 1999 - 00:35:26 GMT