I've been wasting my time on temptations to create a number of templates in
groff for my work and in case I need them in the future. I managed to get stuff
working and it seemed to go well until I realized that I often need to work in
languages other than English. I tried it on my own language and after a lot of
pain with fonts I managed to get the special letters print ok, except that they
did not want to aline quite well in some cases. I went back to latex after that
since I don't want to spend my time now learning groff if I cannot make stuff
work in my own language. It's most likely just my ignorance, I must assume. I'll
come back to it.

I also find joy in how I can now send mail. Let me share just a glance. Might
one day write an article on the setup so that I can recreate it if I ever need
to. 

It's as unix as I can imagine. No GUI client, no fancy options. This is exactly
how I write most of the time:

mail -s "hello gopher citizens of the world" example@sdf.org << EOF
I send you this message from my own mail server. Just the command line, fingers
running on the keyboard, and a head thinking of what to write.  Before someone
could log into their microslop account and the whole inbox was loaded I would
already have written this and did something else.  I admit, the time I save down
the line is nothing in comparison with the time I will spend configuring stuff I
don't even really need to touch.  But oh well, such is the lot of a nerd. Take
care of your self.  
EOF

P.S. that's to sdf's minimalism I discovered a command called spell. Maybe it 
could be useful to someone who writes directly in the shell like I do. You just
run: spell my-file.txt and it prints words that it doesn't recognize. A lot of 
them are not wrong per se, only the dic is out of date; but still very useful 
in case such as mine. I also started to use cool-retro-term when accessing SDF
just so that I can feel more like I'm back in time in some secret place haha.