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Re: moving mutt to standard priority



On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:00:38AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 02, Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> wrote:
>  
>  >MUA: mutt
>  >This is not the default, the only two mail clients with standard priority are
>  >mailx and elm++, do we recommend people run them?
> I think mutt should have standard priority, nowadays is used by *many*
> people and for new users is MUCH nicer than elm.
> 
>  >vi: vim
>  >I am not arguring this should be the recommended editor, just the recommended
>  >version of vi. I do not think that any package should be the recommended
> I agree... Why does it have a lower priority in alternatives than nvi?

Has someone done a Y2K audit on elm? As it stands, I don't think any of
the available upstream sources are, and we just dropped support for it
at work in favor of other installed clients. If we can't get it verified,
we should probably push people at mutt...

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