21 Feb
2018
21 Feb
'18
3 p.m.
On 02/21/2018 03:50 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
That's me, I expect.
I'm not naming any names.
I have sent an email to the person directly with a polite inquiry. I
see no point in pointing fingers.
I used to use a TOPS-20 email reader called MM, and
when I moved my
email to a Unix machine, there was a version of MM I used there, then
something happened (I forget what) and I couldn't use that any more.
Intriguing.
I find it amazing the number of things that I can learn by reading TUHS
and CCTalk.
Granted, I do miss some things when threads I'm ignoring fork without
actually starting threads. Oops!
I do have access to a more modern email reader
(Eudora), but don't like
it; I just stick with old, simple stuff I know how to use. I don't have
the spare brain cells / energy to switch.
I think that everybody should have the option to choose what ever
software / hardware they want to use. If you want to flip switches on
the front of an Altair to ""type an email, after reading 5-bit punched
paper tape, then by all means, more power to you.
Read: I know how I would react if someone told me how I should do
something, so far be it for me to try to tell someone else how they
should do something.
That being said, I may inquire how / why someone is doing something,
along with what prompted me to ask the question. - My intention is to
(hopefully) alleviate my ignorance of a situation and to make the other
party aware of something. - What said other party does with said
information is /their/ prerogative.
After going through I've-forgotten-how-many
editors (starting with TECO,
then 'ed'), text formatting systems, operating systems, email readers,
etc, etc I have a very simple rule about switching software: is the old
stuff I'm using utterly, irretrievably unusable? If not, ignore the new
stuff. Eventually it'll be obsolete too. And in the meantime, I'll have
saved countless cycles by not going through the hassle of switching to
it. Life's too short.
I see the logic in what you're saying.
If it works for you?. Far be it for me?.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die