On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear John:
>
> Thanks a million! At last, that dreadful error message is gone! I've
> been seeing this error message ever since I switched to Linux early this
> year. I won't say that it has driven me crazy. Not really. But it has
> made me feel very uneasy, anxious just as the message about "You have
> new mail" does (which I understand is another meaningless error message
> generated by Pine in Linux). Look at it from a newbie's point of view:
it's not pine that produces that it's your shell, don't like it alter the
MAILCHECK env
> Don't you agree that it would be wonderful if Mandrake, the
> user-friendly distro (and, as someone who is very pleased with Mandrake,
> I mean that sincerely), eliminated that anxiety-inducing error message.
Removeing other peoples error messages is a bad thing
> If it were a real error message, that would be one thing. But it if is
> an obvious bug, why not remove it in the next version and make a
it's an error message nothing more nothing less..
> newbie's life a little less difficult than it already is.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> Benjamin
>
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