Sending email on a schedule?

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, John Van Ostrand wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:06 -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>
>> Actually, a curses or CLI interface is what I was hoping for.  However,
>> if you know of software designed to read my mind, that *would* be
>> easier.
>
>
> Ahh, that's  DWIMNWIS: Do what I mean, not what I say.

Richard Stallman has a story about that.  He tells the story that he 
worked on a (non-unix) system once with an rm command that attempted to 
use the DWIMNWIS principal - with predictable consequences.  Since then I 
understand he's been rather hostile to the idea of DWIMNWIS.

Cheers,

Rob

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