Re: [VM] Using VM for 19 years, still can't solve "iconv: (stdin):21:31: cannot convert"

[Alan Wehmann]

On 10/28/2013 10:22 AM, Uday Reddy wrote:
> edburns writes:
>
> > Os: SunOS foo 5.10 Generic_144489-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
> > Emacs: 21.4 (patch 22) \"Instant Classic\" XEmacs Lucid
> > vm: 8.0.12-devo-585
>
> If you pick up the current beta version of XEmacs, you probably won't need
> iconv.  It will know how to deal with MIME character sets.
>
> vm 8.0.12-devo-585 seems like quite an old unofficial version of VM.  Please
> get vm 8.1.12 from the VM home page.
>
> ---
>
> There are probably quite a few VM users, but they are generally passive,
> just as you have been.  So, we don't hear from them.  VM has had the
> appearance of a dying creed because of this lack of participation by the VM
> community.  I am not sure if open source projects can survive for very long
> without having a band of enthusiastic supporters who carry the flag and
> evangelize.
>
> We all have to put in some amount of effort, depending on what we can
> afford.  Upgrading your software at least once a year and checking the
> mailing list periodically would qualify as the minimum required.
>
> Cheers,
> Uday

I moved from Emacs 19.34 to XEmacs and then back to Emacs 23 (I won't 
explain the reasons why).  I went from Rmail to VM.  I've used 
Compuserve email, then Eudora, now Thunderbird for personal email (my 
wife's too).  I once was a Gnus user (for newsgroups) and even learned 
how to set Gnus up for mail via SSL.  I am an enthusiastic supporter of 
VM.  My experience in switching back, from XEmacs to Emacs, was very 
positive--in hindsight.  I'd venture to guess that a serious VM user is 
better off with Emacs, than with XEmacs--based on my experience.  I 
suspect that those who delve into the VM code nowadays are using Emacs 
much more than XEmacs.

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Alan Wehmann
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