Bug#932: Pine over-encodes files and auto-requests document

[Terry Gray <gray@cac.washington.edu>]

On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Pine is rapidly becoming known not for dependability, but for
> arrogance and disregard for standard net practice.  A dependable
> mailer would do what was most likely to be the right thing.
>
> If I may be potentially offensive, this kind of attitude is one of the
> things that is making Pine very unpopular amongst net-aware people.
> It seems to many of us that the Pine developers refuse to listen to
> the experience of those who have been around longer than they have and
> who actually know what they're talking about.  Instead they take a
> very dogmatic attitude.

Wow.  Talk about arrogance and dogmatism...

-teg