On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:20:05AM +0100, Robin S. Socha wrote:
> * Piotr Kasztelowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Pine, as I think, is most popular software in Unix for mail
> > reading/writing.
>
> Pine is a rotten bunch of crap.
>
> find pine4.21 -type f | xargs egrep '(sprintf|strcpy|strcat)' | wc -l
> 4299
Yes, pine is crappy, and pine is bloatware. Also, pine is not as featureful
as mutt. (even though one might argue that pine supports nntp).
But... You can't ignore the fact that pine _is_ probably the most popular
MUA. It's cursor driven interface is perfect for dumb^H^H^H^Hend users. Who
cares if it doesn't support maildirs, or if it lacks some features, or even
if it uses by default the crappiest text editor I've ever seen? It's easy
to use. Just like Windows :)
RC
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