Emacs as Email Client

Re:Emacs as Email Client by dpcx on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:32PM (#23422103)

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail"

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by HerrMonnezza on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:10PM (#23422581)

I am pretty sure Emacs could already read and send email by the time JWZ formulated this law...

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by jeffrallen on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:28PM (#23422741)

Jwz knew that, because he worked on Lucid Emacs.

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by mycpuorg on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:34PM (#23422128)

Wow! Source?

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by Slackwise on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:43PM (#23422241)

This is known as Zawinski's Law[1]:

https://www.jwz.org/hacks/#:~:text=Law%20of%20Software%20Env...

[1]: Zawinski as in "jwz", Jamie Zawinksi: https://www.jwz.org/about.html

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by hornetblack on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:11PM (#23423572)

Uhhh. jwz.org checks the referer header for hacker news and redircts to a picture of some male gentailia in a egg cup, with some text of what jwz thinks of this site.

I'd advise linking to a archive.org version of the url.

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by Slackwise on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:18AM (#23428833)

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, alrighty then........ can't edit or even delete now. Thanks for the heads-up....

(Mods, could you change it if you see this?!)

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Re:Emacs as Email Client by moioci on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:39PM (#23422193)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

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