Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:00:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, David Lang wrote:

>i am not disputing the fact that some people like it. I was mearly
>pointing out that some people have tried it and didn't like it.

That is understandable. It is a complex and cryptic program,
which is initially difficult to use. *I* don't like it. The
reason is because it is so damned cryptic. In contrast however,
I can't see how something as powerful as procmail could be made
non-cryptic and remain as full featured as it is.

It is a pain in the ass to configure at first, but once it is
working, it is done.

>On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Jauder Ho wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:02:54 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Jauder Ho <jauderho@transmeta.com>
>> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>> Cc: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>,
> linux-dev-strategy@alpha.webcom.com
>> Subject: Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c
>>
>>
>> incorrect.. I use procmail and pine myself and it works very nicely for
>> me. It's part of the reason why I use pine. Pine lets you define several
>> incoming folders and the way I have it set up, it jumps to the next folder
>> with new messages. Hence I can scan through mail in a minimal amount of
>> time. And with the release of pine4, scanning imap folders is much faster.
>> So at least for me procmail is very necessary.
>>
>> --Jauder
>>
>> BTW, I'm now at 122k+ messages for the year so don't feel bad.
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, David Lang wrote:
>>
>> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> >
>> > As someone else who get hundreds of messages a day (almost 90,000 this
>> > year) and doesn't use procmail (any longer) I have one comment.
>> >
>> > If you really have to read all the mail anyway it is easier to deal with
>> > in in one folder (and then move it if it is worth keeping) rather then to
>> > have to keep checking several folders during the day. I don't know if this
>> > is Linu's reason for not using procmail, but procmail is not the answer to
>> > all problems.
>> >
>> > David Lang
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
>> >
>> > > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:31:14 -0500 (CDT)
>> > > From: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>
>> > > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>> > > Cc: linux-dev-strategy@alpha.webcom.com
>> > > Subject: Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Jauder Ho wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Linus uses pine, so if you want to start hacking on it, send me the
>> > > > patches and I'll install it for him provided he will use it :)
>> > > >
>> > > > -Jauder
>> > >
>> > > Let's get him using procmail, too.
>> > >
>> > > # Inbox for patches
>> > > :0:
>> > > * ^Subject:.*\[[Pp][Aa][Tt][Cc][Hh]].*
>> > > Inbox_Patches
>> > >
>> > > # EndOfRule
>> > >
>> > > Pretty powerfull when you get more into it.
>> > >
>> > > -Shawn
>> > > <=========== America Held Hostage ===========>
>> > > Day 2080 for the poor and the middle class.
>> > > Day 2099 for the rich and the dead.
>> > > 842 days remaining in the Raw Deal.
>> > > <============================================>
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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