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Thursday, August 24, 2000, 12:19:06 PM, Will wrote:
> maybe this is the snag you're caught on:

    Nope, it isn't where I am getting caught on.

> in the unix paradigm (which linux inhereted/cloned) the idea is to
> make modules that serve a certain task, and string those modules
> together to Do What You Want.

    Right.  However in certain cases that paradigm breaks down.  This is one
of those cases.

>         which somecommand
>         less `!!`

    Feh.  less `which somecommand`.  Of course there are problems with find .
- -atime +30 rm \{\} \; but we won't go into that other than to say it is
another fine example of why that paradigm breaks down at some point.

> that's what fetchmail/exim/mutt do -- each plays a part in getting,
> distributing and viewing the email.

    Which, as I have pointed out, is broken in certain circumstances.

> since to use a mail client/mua, you hafta be logged in (i.e. have
> an account, may as well yank all your remote accounts (fetchmail) and
> plop them into your verious mail folders (exim/procmail) and read each
> group in its own isolated environment (mutt) so you can wear the
> appropriate hat for the appropriate subject at hand.

    First off, procmail is redundant.  I love people who talk about exim and
procmail in the same breath as if procmail is needed.  Second procmail and
mutt do not offered its own isomated environment.  If you had read this
thread, you would by now understand that.  As I said, it breaks down after a
certain point.

> modularity, the clarion call of unix... we see it as A Good Thing.

    Yes, it is a good thing.  Breaking down too far is a bad thing.  It is
finding that medium breakpoint that is the problem, isn't it?


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