Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
Kazuyoshi Furutaka <furutaka(a)tokai.pnc.go.jp> writes:
> > What is ``mew''? "Messaging in an Emacs world" doesn't
really tell
> > much.
It is a mail reader that evolved from a programmer's distaste for the
lack of development on mh-e.
> > Also, how come the maintainer is XEmacs development team,
given
> > I've never heard of this package?
The listed maintainer is the XEmacs package maintainer, not the package
author. A maintainer of `XEmacs development team' defaults to me in
the absence of anyone else.
> "In short, Mew is a great MIME mail reader for
Emacs/XEmacs"
> It also needs IM, a perl5 script suite which replaces MH.
Thanks for the information. It sounds interesting. Steve, would
you
consider updating the description to at least mention it's a mail
reader?
That's not what I gathered by reading the documentation. It has
started off as a mail reader, but it is approaching what Gnus does
from the mail reading side rather than from the Usenet side, in which
case the description is as good as any.
Also, the maintainer address should likely be updated to
<SOMETHING(a)mew.org>.
Not until (or if) that is who will be maintaining the XEmacs package.
The maintainer will be me if I can't fix the fuckage created in my Gnus
setup by an incompetent sysadmin and Gnus defaults in the next few
weeks. My email has basically been down 2 weeks now due to changes in
the default NNTP server I access netnews from and I'm well beyond the
mildly pissed-off stage.