Kent West wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
> >
> > >Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't
> > >have
> > >to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all,
> > >but
> > >isn't the whole point of the information being there to help inexperienced
> > >users and minimize the number of "unsubscribe me" messages sent to the
> > >list?
> > >To obfuscate this message strikes me as counterproductive.
> >
> > I see it a different way. Look at this way, the person was using
> > Eudora,
> > right? This is a Linux mailing list. Does the tag there work with Linux?
> > Hell yeah, it works pretty much as a cut and paste. How much more simple do
> > you want it to be? The fact this person was using Eudora is irrelevant
> > since, last I checked, Eudora wasn't ported to Linux.
> >
> > --
> > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
> > ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of
> > souls.
> > -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>
> If Braden is correct that the whole point is to "help inexperienced
> users", then I as a linux/unix newbie who still uses Eudora/Windows (for
> several reasons, but not because of affection for Windows) qualify as a
> valid voice in this discussion: the tagline meant nothing to me.
>
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It also assumes that the user has an MTA up and running. For a single
user with a dial-up connection (getting their mail from their ISP's POP3
server) having an MTA is optional (you have to have one installed to
satisfy dpkg dependencies; but it can just be left unconfigured) because
they can use Netscape to "replace" a
smail/fetchmail/mutt/inn/innnews/slrn combo.
Most people who can successfuly set up the above combo, and use a
commandline MTA, don't need the helpful tagline. The tagline really
should be written to be independant of the MTA used.
--
Ed C.
