[tlug] "done one job and do it well" mailer [was: Alan Cox's remark at Fosdem]

[Michael Smith <smith@example.com>]

Uva Coder <uva.coder@example.com> writes:

[...]

> I think what separates the Bell Labs (BL) open source operating
> systems from the GNU based open source operating systems is
> discernment. This discernment comes from a philosophy.
> 
> An example of the difference is where a utility should to do one
> job and do it well. For instance, an utility should not attempt
> to be a swiss knife (e.g., tar -xzvf file.tar.gz).  Along these
> lines we do not need a plethroa of mailers; just one mailer that
> works right.

[...]

And that mailer would be MH. You're not going to find another
mailer that better illustrates the "software tools" philosophy.

So why aren't we all using MH?

  --Mike

-- 
Michael Smith
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