Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the my-first-love dept.
wasaty writes "Yesterday new PINE came out. Main new feature is (at last!) threading support. Look here for a full list of changes." Ah, my first "real" e-mail program; watching it change is like watching evolution in motion.
Careful, captain. Some of us are still using Pine.
Of course I'm not surprised by the reaction. My mother saw me sshing to my box once and said "Oh God, that brings back horrible memories..." Who says that UI has nothing to do with End User acceptance? Me personally: I love it. But to most people its like "Why do you go out hunting with a bow and arrow when we can get perfectly good meat down at the Kroger?"
Pine Users: the Ted Nugents of the Computing World!
-- What is music when you despise all sound?
Out of pine comes pico
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stype
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· Score: 5, Funny
And don't forget about pico (pine composer), which has been making bad programmers worse for more years than I care to remember.
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Hum, not quite yet. But, it is definitely catching up.
Real men use cat /var/spool/mail/$USER | more and telnet $SMTP_HOST 25
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
Careful, captain. Some of us are still using Pine.
Of course I'm not surprised by the reaction. My mother saw me sshing to my box once and said "Oh God, that brings back horrible memories..." Who says that UI has nothing to do with End User acceptance? Me personally: I love it. But to most people its like "Why do you go out hunting with a bow and arrow when we can get perfectly good meat down at the Kroger?"
Pine Users: the Ted Nugents of the Computing World!
What is music when you despise all sound?
And don't forget about pico (pine composer), which has been making bad programmers worse for more years than I care to remember.
-Stype
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