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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 15:57:01 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: better than pine?
Message-ID:  <20000518155700.A5557@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <20000518103004.J21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 10:30:04AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net> <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000518024350.F16497@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000518103004.J21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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> Good work to the Pine team then, three things which do NOT belong in
> a MUA.  HTML parsing code belongs in a web browser, editing abilities
> belong in uh, an editor, and SMTP code belongs in the MTA.  Don't these
> people know this is Unix where you have small programs which do specific
> things well??

They didn't aim at the unix gurus.  They aimed at something which will
work almost out-of-the-box for newbies.  They make that pretty clear
in their documentation, and they certainly succeeded.  I know some
total unix illiterates who grokked pine on their first encounter with
it.  Besides, when they originally included the editor, the only other
option was vi, which is scary to non-unix people; they later released
the editor separately (as pico, = pine composer) partly because of the
popularity of pine. 

If mutt didn't exist I'd probably still be using pine...


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