Re: PINE Debian Package
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> : Put another way. If you have to support a couple of hundred relative unix
> : clueless, I would rather they use pine than mutt. I will admit that it
> : has sveraql months since I last took a look at it, I am willing to have
> : another look.
>
> If they indeed are "unix clueless", it will take forever for them to fathom
> the idea of a VTY. I can hear it now... "pine? Do I get that through
> FTP or is it that telenet thingamajig?" If they are indeed "unix clueless",
> you'll run a POP or IMAP server and give them their pretty Windoze or Mac
> mailers.
now that is hardly fair....
I have a friend who is "Unix Clueless", in fact he goes to
Harvard University...where there are allot of just plain "Computer
Clueless" (ok it is possible to goto Harvard and Major in CS
but I can't help but think that is the most extreme case of
"Picking a School for its Name")
He regularly uses pine....and so do most users there...
they happily walk up to any Macintosh terminal
telnet to "fas", log in and run Pine
(a damned dhame when just downstairs from one set of these
terminals is a bunch of DEC-Unix running 300 MHz Alphastations
with 21" screens...and they hardly get used)
but Pine is easy for them to run and understand...
they don't even realize it is running on some server elsewhere
(of course my friend is willing to learn and will have
his first linux system up soon..even though he doesn't
quite understand what that means....YET)
- -Steve
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