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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. Re:Now is a great time to switch to mutt by dan+dan+the+dna+man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe there will be a massive switch to Alpine?

    From TFWP : "In late 2005, Computing & Communications at the University of Washington began a project to create a new family of email tools built upon the Pine® Message System. This family of tools is called Alpine. Alpine consists of a UNIX command-line program, a PC version, and a Web version.

    Alpine will be licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0."

    PINE was my first UNIX mail reader on the now defunct MRC HGMP server circa 1995 (how I miss that account) so I grew to love it. That was around the time I still thought PICO was a neat editor. Then I found vi, them vim, then mutt, and I've not looked back :)

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  2. Re:Now is a great time to switch to mutt by JohnFluxx · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If he wants to say that, he should be allowed to.

    Is it so difficult to allow other people to say what they think, rather than pushing your values onto them?