Re: pine mutt

1999-02-22 Thread John Galt
I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: Well I tried

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi John Galt, you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:13:38PM -0700: I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. You might want to read /usr/doc/slrn/SCORE_FAQ.gz, I

SLRN killfiles (was: pine mutt)

1999-02-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:13:38 -0700 (MST), John Galt wrote: I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. Uhm...

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Christian Kurz
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: Well I tried pine at first (it did news, but not too good), then tried SLRN, which was pretty good, but had no nice filtering/scoring. Then I tried

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:39:38PM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: Steve Willer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Now I use mutt and tin and am quite happy with both. Sounds like mutt wasn't too good for news either. AFAIK mutt isn't currently meant to be a news reader. There are patches to make it

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Steve Lamb, you wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:22:34PM -0800: *WHY!?* Anyone familiar with mutt would know that it was modeled after a newsreader, SLRN! So why contribute to bloat by having those two functions in the same program, especially mutt, when one can have mutt and slrn with

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: Well I tried pine at first (it did news, but not too good), then tried SLRN, which was pretty good, but had no nice filtering/scoring. Then I tried tin and it's IMHO great. Aroo? In what way is SLRN's scoring poor? IMHO it

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: So, do you think it is worth switching to mutt? Is it better in terms of supporting mutiple folders?? I have used pine for quite a few years and tried out mutt for a few weeks last year - just to return to pine. I do not like mutt. Maybe I could

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Frederick Page
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 11:05:56AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: problems using mutt to send mail to a lot of people at once. Pine's way of handling the addressbook and aliases works better for me. It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was content about the way it handled

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Frederick Page wrote: It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was content about the way it handled email, but it sucked for news. And it did not have color, which is very helpful (for me). There is a patch available for Pine that gives it some

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Adam Lazur
Steve Willer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Now I use mutt and tin and am quite happy with both. Sounds like mutt wasn't too good for news either. AFAIK mutt isn't currently meant to be a news reader. There are patches to make it do news however, but they aren't incorporated into the stable

pine mutt

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have been a happy pine user. But recently, I have heard that many people are using mutt, and it is really good configurable. So, do you think it is worth switching to mutt? Is it better in terms of supporting mutiple folders?? Thanks. Shao Zhang - Running Debian

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 11:05:24PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi Shao, I've used pine for about 1 year never expirience too much, after switching the linux distribution from SuSE to Debian (2.0) i could'nt find pine, however. Therefore I have a look to mutt and installed this package after a couple