What I think is funny is people making fun of me for reading email in Emacs. I use my own filtering system built on top of MH-E, which is layered on top of nmh

What I think is funny is people making fun of me for reading email in Emacs. I use my own filtering system built on top of MH-E, which is layered on top of nmh command line tools. MH-E uses GNUS for MIME handling and I'm able to view HTML messages just fine. Why I think it's funny: people laugh that I'm using 20-30 year old technology and new tech would serve me better. To each of them I say: I challenge you to an efficiency dual/bet. Pit your system against mine. When I show them actually what I use, they don't take the bet. Yes, what I'm using was first written almost 30 years ago, but I've tuned the crap out of it (with my own tweaks) and so have others, improving the tools themselves. The only thing that would make my life easier would be if nmh could use IMAP. There have been many discussions of this, but it's just not a natural fit. I don't know if it will ever be done. EDIT: typos