Notice Rich's "reply all" function ..... is this his e-mail client or
WC's?
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> Sent: Friday, October 02, 1998 8:34 AM
> To: Gill, Kathy
> Subject: FW: WC:>: Linux and NT - a non-techie view - now PINE
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> I wonder if this is a function of Mutt? Check the cc: list ... it
> keeps growing, and they keep coming.
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> Subject: Re: WC:>: Linux and NT - a non-techie view - now PINE
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> > > Pine is dead, as is elm. Mutt has subsumed and supplanted both.
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> > 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>
> Kathy E. Gill
> DCAC/MRM Production Visibility Support -- 425.234.2004, pager
> 425.568.0195
> The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living
> at doing what they most enjoy. ~ Malcomb S. Forbes
> Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire!
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