From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 3:56:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9530937BD01 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 03:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 91836 invoked from network); 18 May 2000 10:27:01 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 18 May 2000 10:27:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 5598 invoked by uid 211); 18 May 2000 10:27:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 15:57:01 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <20000518155700.A5557@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Smithurst , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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 +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message