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Jeffrey Goldberg 写道:
> On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>
>> alpine => said to support charset conversion but cannot find any link
>> for downloading it.
>
> The link for downloading alpine is deliberately not made public. That 
> is because alpine is considered alpha and UW seems to want everyone 
> who is testing it to be a member of the alpine alpha testers mailing 
> list. You can join the list at
>
> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-alpha
>
> and you'll get the location of the latest alpine source, with many 
> reminders that it is alpha.
>
> Alpine has the same look and feel of pine.
>
> -j
>
Al, okay, I'll join that list and hope alpine is as many other 
opensource software that is pretty mature on its 0.8 version.

But, I'd think Washington University better take an approach like 
"release early, release often". That might help. Off topic though.