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[thope]

> Really? Is it lame to be using an email clients these days?

I think he means that wether nano is derived from an email client or not is not important

[cantrevealname → thope]

You might be right; I may have misinterpreted. He might be saying, "The notion of email client itself is gone from Nano at this point, everything changed about Nano".

[asjo → cantrevealname]

For what is is worth, I read it in the same way as you. And found it kind of an odd statement, for a guy who has a website with a monospaced font...