On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris Ess wrote:
> The reason why PINE is not for everyone:
> 1. PINE was written by the same people that brought you wu-ftpd. (One of
> the buggiest *nix ftpd's that I know of.)
PINE came from the University of Washington. WU-FtpD came from
Washington University in St. Louis. They're not even in the same
state, let alone the same people.
> 2. PINE is text only and isn't necessarily intuitive for the end user.
> (I only found out about 'Roles', which would be the equivalent of
> personalities or profiles, in the past year or so.)
It's menu-driven -- what's non-intuitive about that?
> 3. PINE runs on *nix.
Yes, it does. And PC-Pine runs on Windows*.
Damian Menscher
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