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Patches For Pine Going Away

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

md8mart writes to let us know about the imminent shutdown of the site that distributes Pine patches. From the RSS feed of Patches for Pine we read the following bad news for all Pine users: "The Department of Mathematics of the University of Washington will close the account that hosts my Patches for Pine site. I would like to thank the Department of Mathematics for having hosted this site for so many years. I do not have current plans to move this site, but this site will disappear on December 15, 2006. Thank you to everyone who supported me by positive feedback and encouragement to do this work through the years. I will update this information as it becomes available."

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  1. oh god no! by krahli · · Score: 3, Funny

    this is terrible!

  2. Rover by Hemi+Rodner · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rover as in the Fidonet mascot?

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    hemi
  3. That's not what "pine" means by Wee · · Score: 4, Funny
    As Pine is not free software, time to move on to mutt or its next-gen friend, mutt-ng. No need to use a bloated GUI app to read mail.

    I don't care if pine is free or not. It's served me for many, many years. I use it daily, and it works well. It's not a gui app, either, though I'm not sure you were implying that it was.

    As for what "pine" means, here is the truth: "Pine Is Not Enough".

    That is false, and not terribly amusing. I had the great fortune to work for a number of years with one of pine's original developers. Over lunch one day, he told me that 'pine' isn't an acronym at all. But, he said, if it were to be made into a backronym, it was generally agreed that it should stand for "Pine Is a Neologist's Elm".

    You all can figure out what 'pico' doesn't stand for.

    -B

    --

    Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.

  4. The Project Is Not Dead... by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's just pining for the Fijords!

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    -- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
  5. Well, I guess all that's left.. by Channard · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. is to drag the tree outside and put it by the bin, and then hoover up the needles.

  6. Re:well there's always /usr/bin/mail by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would use emacs. The only thing is, it lacks a decent text editor.

  7. No more patches for pine? by phil.bachman · · Score: 3, Funny

    With no site for pine patches I'll pine for patches while I mine patches to pine. :-(

  8. Re:well there's always /usr/bin/mail by Phroggy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would use emacs. The only thing is, it lacks a decent text editor.

    This is no longer true. I can't find the link at the moment, but someone has ported vim to it, as a module.

    --
    $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;