> > Pine is dead, as is elm. Mutt has subsumed and supplanted both.
> >
> Ummm... maybe cause I live in the shadow of the UW -- but please tell
> this to my ISP, which provides Pine for all Shell Account users. And our
> freenet, Seattle Community Network, which provides Pine for its users
UW will probably stick with it for quite some time, and so will any
number of ISPs. But it's no longer a viable piece of software, and
it's time to work out how to migrate to the follow-on.
This is one of the good things, IMHO, about the freeware world: software
has to compete based on its own merits, and not on marketing dollars,
and not on hype, and not on anything else. When a better package
comes along (or when development takes an existing package as
far as it can go), it supplants the older one in an evolutionary
fashion. Some folks don't like this continuous process of change,
but I think it's the right approach to computing, and that to
do otherwise risks being locked into software that's *not* evolving;
and that's a Bad Thing.
Oh, there are still people fiddling with Pine, just as there are
people fiddling with Elm; but mutt, which was designed by someone
who was very familiar with both of them, blows the doors off them
in terms of feature set, portability, and (much to my surprise,
given how new it is) reliability. See http://www.mutt.org for
the rundown, source code, etc.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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