Re: More detailed post ...
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 15:16, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Yven Johannes Leist wrote:
[...]
> > old anyway so just switch to something newer" seems at least slightly out
> > of touch with reality to me...
>
> Sometimes change is good. I was quite proficient with DOS
> (Dr-DOS/Novell DOS + 4dos, Win 3.11) but made the switch to linux.
> Why? Because it was better. It was 1994 so I installed Slackware.
> Later, I moved to Debian? Why? Because it was better.
>
> Ever since I encountered pine at college (on SCO; yuck) I used that as
> my email client. However, in 1998 I switched to mutt. Was it easy?
> No. Am I glad I did it? Yes! (because ... it was better :-)
>
> Rejecting change simply because it causes some pain is short sighted.
Fully agreed, I'd never recommend anyone to stay with NS4 for the rest of his
life, I merely took exception to the lack of compassion, especially when
recommending a terminal-based client, which causes _heaps_ of pain ;)
Cheers,
Yven
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Yven Johannes Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.leist.beldesign.de
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