On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:07:40AM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be possible to write a "PINE-TO-MUTT.HOWTO"?
> > This could discuss such questions like:
> > How to port my address book?
> > How to convert folders (if I have to)?
> > How to do the "every day work" when my fingers do the wrong (pine) thing.
> How to break the news to your 100's of users
Symlink /usr/bin/pine to /usr/bin/mutt, and mention that you've upgraded
to the latest version, and that there are some minor interface changes.
Hell, if you're _really_ feeling generous, leave oldpine lying about,
but mention that any support questions or complaints about lost mail will
be ignored :)
> How to quell the mob riots that ensue
Knives? Guns? Tactical nuclear weapons? Threaten to halve their disk
quota?
> How to handle the flood of angry, abusive letters to the support help desk
The same as phone calls to the hell desk --- ignore the boring ones,
and give the rest a lesson in how much worse life /could/ be...
(Maybe the mutt or pine lists/newsgroups might be more appropriate for
this thread...)
Cheers,
aj, YA ex-pine user, now happily converted to mutt
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