Re: [Nmh-workers] What are and what should be the qualifications for a current nmh user

[norm]

Bill Wohler <address@hidden> writes:
>address@hidden writes:
>
>> Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
>> (Half a year ago)
>>
>>>I've thought about the nmh target audience ... I guess my thinking is the
>>>ideal nmh user be programmers who want a flexible MUA that can make use of
>>>many of the features of the Unix command line.
>
>Way back when I was working at SRI in the 80's, our entire group,
>programmers, scientists, and support staff alike, used MH. Thus
>non-programmers could use MH, and that hasn't changed.

But I bet that, like RAND, almost all, if all of your new users were within a
few feet of more experienced users, probably running terminals into a time
shared system -- no new users running a PC in Wichita.

AND, there was no MIME.

So you had it a lot easier than contemporary developers.

    Norman Shapiro