Mew's policy
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The following words mention Mew's spirit:

     Mew wants something simple or nothing at all.

That is, complicated mechanism is not necessary. What Mew provides is
simple yet comprehensive feature.

Many people tell me like this: "A mailer that I used before has this
kind of feature and I think it's very convenient. So, please implement
it in Mew". Sorry, such a explanation might never convince me. Mew is
trying to carry out stuff that other programs have not ever done so.
The word "good-old" seems to me not enough.

Some people say to me that Mew should support, for instance, the `R'
mark and the `F' mark for replied and forwarded messages
respectively. With many discussions, however, I decided not to support
this feature since it is hard to make sure that the `R' marks are put
on certain replied messages. What if trying to reply by `a' then
quitting by `C-cC-q' in Draft buffer? If the `R' mark is put on a
message when you type `a', wrong mark is put on the message. Rather
providing imperfect features, I would like to implement more advanced
mechanism such as multipart editor(for more information, see *Note
todo::).

If you believe in your opinion, please pursue the author
patiently. Since I'm hell-of-a busy person I'm prone to forget what
you explained before. And because I'm just a man I regret to say I'm
subjective. It is quite possible for me not to understand your novel
ideas. So, please don't give up!

Please don't say "Mew is similar to mh-e" nor "Mew is an enhanced
version of mh-e". Just because Mew is implemented with completely
different concept from mh-e in spite of the similar appearance.