[crackmonkey] I hate MEW!

[Nick Moffitt]

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:45:06PM -0800, ESP wrote:
> So, I bought into this great mailer mode for Emacs, MEW, because it
> has great PGP/MIME support.

	Use Emacs: go to prison.  It's that simple.

> However, every other feature sucks the big Drumstick.  For example:
> the key to reply is... "A"!  The key to bounce is... "r"!  The key to
> reply to all is... THERE IS NO REPLY TO ALL!

	Good to know that it's in keeping with the Emacs Way of using
intuitive keybindings!

> Everything is really stupid, and it uses this ridiculous IM library
> of mailer scripts that won't let me fake-up my address (so the
> original sender is always my bogus user on my bogus home system).

	No more Jed Sanders posts from your box?

> To top it all off, there's no GPG support, which is the WORST PART.

	Gosh!  You won't be able to send encrypted mail to the
hundreds of millions of GPG users worldwide!

> I feel like a big chump for using it this long, but of course what
> can you do?

	Use mutt.

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