Patches For Pine Going Away

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."

Comments

Re:well geez...

[multipartmixed]

Did you also send him an e-mail offering to parent his newborn?

Or did you think he would terminate it when he found out someone could host his domain?

Re:How would you compare pine and mutt?

[eno2001]

SSH? What's that? I use Microsoft's innovated IP Sec VPN for super fast connections from anywhere in the world. And who in their right mind uses dial-up these days anyway. Bandwidth is cheap. Just hop on a WiFi AP somewhere, launch the MS VPN connection and then use the innovative Remote Desktop application to connect directly to your desktop at the home office. Simple, clean, and effective. No need for mussing about with command lines. And even better, the lightweight Remote Desktop Protocol goes over even slow DSL lines without having to run a local Outlook client. Not to mention that all of the above is really not needed if you use Outlook Web Agent which is really light. I was simply pointing out that the archaic command line applications you mentioned have far too much technical knowledge overhead. I just want to check mail, I don't want to be a programmer.