I think the weight of usage might be against you here. Pine is certainly cool, and darned fast. But, much as I'm a command-line person myself, I think the times they have a changed, to corrupt a song line...
-----Original Message----- From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Flint Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: From my cold, dead finger... Dear Tony, Do you know how long it took to get key bindings into Pine? Also the silly thing will do html by chain loading lynx or something. I just think that html mail is a pain, and stand in the way of communication. That said, thanks for noticing Regards, The missing link. On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Harris, Anthony J wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:43:54 -0400 > From: "Harris, Anthony J" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Being mean to Flint > > You do realize of course that darn near every email program in common use > other than Pine/Alpine will correctly handle HTML emails these days... > > I wasn't a fan either, but the world seems to have pretty much embraced them. > > Tony > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Flint > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Being mean to Flint > > Dear Josh, > > Unicode I can handle. I just do not like HTML mail. > > Regards, > > Flint > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Josh Sled wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:39:13 -0400 >> From: Josh Sled <[email protected]> >> To: Paul Flint <[email protected]> >> Cc: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: vtSDA Special Announcement (3/12) >> >> Paul Flint <[email protected]> writes: >>> My browser reads HTML. My email system reads ASCII email. >> >> It's 2009. If your email can't handle HTML (even if it's better not to >> use it, for good reasons), or if your email system can't handle Unicode, >> then maybe you should upgrade. â~º >> >> -- >> ...jsled >> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >> > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > Consilium > gratuitum .~. > valet /V\ > quanti /( )\ > numerantur ^^-^^ > Kindest Regards, Paul Flint (802) 479-2360 /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. Paul Flint Barre Open Systems Institute 17 Averill Street Barre, VT 05641 http://www.bosivt.org http://www.flint.com/home skype: flintinfotech Work: (202) 537-0480 Fax: (703) 852-7089 Consilium gratuitum .~. valet /V\ quanti /( )\ numerantur ^^-^^
