Decades ago, when this email thing came out I looked around for a good mailer and discovered "pine" and learnt to use that.
Alas, it was not true blue open source, (stupid dumb Academia might make us money someday license) so it was never packaged with the distros.... ...but, it was so good, that everytime distro upgrade came around I'd swear and curse, try mutt, evolution, thunderbird, mutter, grumble, mutter, I don't have time for this.... ...and download and install pine again. Now the Good Folk at "Washington.Edu" have produced a true open source pine called "alpine" and version 1.0 is packaged with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Gnice! Works just like Good Old Pine, except has better ldap integration, and very funny little ascii art busy bars! Oh yes, for those who don't know... pine and alpine are retro-style text only mailers. None of this slow/buggy gluey gui html crap. Well, actually it does a nice text-only "links" like rendering of html, so thats OK. Which means it's more than usually pointless to send me viral / viral infected / joke / chain emails... All the hearts and puppies and blinking stars just get dropped out. :-) Sigh! Happy me. I like alpine. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
