Worm Either Way (was Despair & Utopia)

jf noonan jfn1 at msc.com
Fri Nov 12 07:30:40 PST 1999


On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:


> jf noonan wrote:
>
> >Stick to Pine (or, if you *must* do it on Winoze, Eudora) and
> >you won't have these kinds of problems.
>
> Pine? How boring and ugly. All that text and those line commands. No
> graphics, icons, or pull-down menus. What is this, some kind of
> Protestant austerity/asceticism thing?

No, it is clean, simple, and elegant design. Why all those garish icons and crap; you wanna feel like you're watching TV or something?

Funny thing, to listen to a profesional writer complain about "all that text", if you ask me.

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Joseph Noonan jfn1 at msc.com



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