Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:08:06 -0500 From: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> To: "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: better than pine? Message-ID: <002c01bfc043$ff4a8980$b8209fc0@marlowe> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005162201530.75114-100000@home.offwhite.net> <200005171727.KAA09714@cortex.NSMA.Arizona.EDU> <20000517202936.H21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
| On the subject of Pine, can someone explain this?
|
| ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/{mutt,slrn,pine}
| -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 367592 7 Nov 1999 /usr/local/bin/mutt*
| -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2374520 5 Jun 1999 /usr/local/bin/pine*
| -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 171532 2 Jan 21:20 /usr/local/bin/slrn*
|
| Pine is over four times bigger than my mail client and news client put
| together. Why?? From what I've seen, Pine is a featureless pile of
| junk. It doesn't even do colours or threading. How on earth is Pine
| over 2MB?? Is it entering the "most bloated communications program"
| competition alongside Outlook Express or something?
|
| </rant>
Being a Pine user and not a user of the other two, do they include a
built-in editor of any value? An IMAP client? That warm, user-friendly
interface that reminds you of your first UNIX account during the heady days
at University, that girl with the soft, brown hair, er, nevermind.
(Although even pico+mutt+slrn < pine).
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