Re: Maildir versus malibox

2001-01-20 Thread Robin S. Socha 

* Piotr Kasztelowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Pine is a rotten bunch of crap.
> So make better functionaly and intuitionaly software as pine :-)

May I introduce myself? I am /the/ Robin S. Socha, horror of
news:comp.mail.pine and founding member of the nancyboys (also of cmp
fame). Which part of "pine sucks more than words can describe" did you
not understand? Gnus and mutt exist, support SIMAP and Maildir and I use
both. And no, I don't want your Cc:s. Thankyouverymuch.
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Re: Maildir versus malibox

2001-01-20 Thread Henning Brauer 

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:44:08PM -, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote:
> >Pine is a rotten bunch of crap. 
> So make better functionaly and intuitionaly software
> as pine :-)

If "functionaly and intuitiomaly" counts more then security for you, you
might want to check outlook and windooze.

sorry. 


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Re: Maildir versus malibox

2001-01-20 Thread Ricardo Cerqueira 

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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Re: Maildir versus malibox

2001-01-20 Thread Piotr Kasztelowicz 

Hello

>Pine is a rotten bunch of crap.
>

So make better functionaly and intuitionaly software
as pine :-)

Piotr
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Re: Maildir versus malibox

2001-01-20 Thread Robin S. Socha 

* 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
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