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Re: alpine status?



On 15/10/2014, francis picabia <fpicabia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15/10/2014, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, francis picabia wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 04/09/2014, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Can anyone confirm if development continues on alpine?
>>>>>> I am getting mixed messages  about this, one from my web hosting
>>>>>> company
>>>>>> suggesting I join the developer's list, and another from an end user
>>>>>> claiming that development no longer exists.
>>>>>> Thanks much,
>>>>>> Karen
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suggest that you visit
>>>>> http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
>>>>> and subscribe to that mailing list, and, post your query there.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe that you would find that development of alpine, is alive and
>>>>> well, and, that list includes the developers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe that the version of alpine that I use, is 2.00, running on
>>>>> Debian 6.
>>>>
>>>> Bret's information is out of date.
>>>>

<snip>

>>  I must conclude that the post from "francis picabia" is a
>> misinfomational troll.
>
> A troll?  WTF?  Did you look at the links I included?
> I don't manage that UW web site, dude.  It is ancient, and I can't
> be blamed for expecting sand to come out of such a tomb.
>

So, was it correct that " Bret's information is out of date.", as you posted?

What, of the information that I posted, "is out of date"?

Please clarify that particular claim.

Did you go to the URL that I posted above, in the text

"
>>>>> I suggest that you visit
>>>>> http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
>>>>> and subscribe to that mailing list, and, post your query there.
"

?


-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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