Gmail vs Pine

Snarfed has an interesting review on Gmail vs Pine. From the article: "I've used Pine as my email client for, well, pretty much forever. I use it because it's fast, powerful, stable, and very keyboardable. (I hate the mouse.) However, since I work at Google, I'm constantly bombarded with people who ask me why I don't use Gmail. After hearing the nth person brag about how much it increased their productivity, I finally broke down and tried it. I didn't expect much, since I've never liked web-based email clients. However, I made myself use it as my only email client, for a month, to give it a fair shot."

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Only one way to resolve this...

[AKAImBatman]

...GoogleFight!

GMail Email Client: 5,100,000 results
Pine Email Client: 2,080,000 results

Sorry dude. The unwashed masses have spoken. Time to upgrade!

Strange review!

[caluml]

'I've used the Royal Mail as my main communications method for, well, pretty much forever. I use it because it's fast, powerful, good value, and very reliable. (I hate UPS.) However, since I work at Google, I'm constantly bombarded with people who ask me why I don't use the Internet. After hearing the nth person brag about how much it increased their productivity, I finally broke down and tried it. I didn't expect much, since I've never liked clicking. However, I made myself use it as my only communication method, for a month, to give it a fair shot.'"

What is this? Some guy tries something that everyone has been using for years now? Hey - guess what I found out the other day - cars! I used to walk everywhere..... Hey! I found out about phones last week! They're great - I don't have to travel 50 miles to speak to ....

elm!

[eln]

Back in the dark ages before webmail, only newbies and English majors used pine. Everyone else either used mail or elm. I personally used elm, and still prefer it if I ever need to use a command-line mail utility, which isn't all that often these days.

The things I hated about Pine were that it unnecessarily reversed colors on the screen to look more "graphical," and its default editor was that horror known as Pico. I much preferred elm and vi.

Loser

[stinerman]

Heh ... you're using Pine? Real nerds just telnet to port 110.

</sarcasm>

Lucky guy

[canoramix]

If you work for Microsoft and you use Pine to access your Hotmail account you've already meet SteveB for a nice one-on-one :-)

Re:PINE + PortaPuTTY + Thumb Drive

[McCarrum]

DOH! /me cackles quietly to self.

Damn, I got n00b all over myself there ..

Re:PINE + PortaPuTTY + Thumb Drive

[cdrudge]

And a computer with a USB port but no Internet access is useful for e-mail how?