On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, James and Mary Burbidge wrote: #Mark A Mandel wrote: #> #> I have a slow dialup connection, so I do my email and newsgroups through #> a tty-emulation text-only connection, using pine and tin. # #The obvious solution is to drop pine and tin and use emacs as a mail #client (emacs uses proper termcap updating, so it shouldn't flood your #connection). Then you can do a one-time adjustment via elisp for #replying to this list and you're away free. Well, that might work. I'm (re)learning emacs anyway. I'll try it down at the office. But I'm semi-computergeekish already, and emacs is *NOTHING* like user-friendly. Well... I've heard it said that "Unix is user-friendly, for certain very special values of 'user'." This doesn't answer the underlying question of making the list work well for anyone who has the basic requirements of - interest in the topic and - email access #Along the lines of the religion thread: M-x all-hail-emacs. Yes, well... -- Mark A. Mandel