Patches For Pine Going Away

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday November 18, 2006 @10:35PM 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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Re:oh god no! by arth1 · 2006-11-18 22:53 · Score: 5, Informative

MollyB (162595) wrote:
I haven't used Pine for 12 years or so, but this feels like the folks writing to say that old Rover is gone...

Except that it isn't. It's the user site "patches for pine" that goes away, not pine, nor the pine web site, nor pine itself.

The official web site is at http://www.washington.edu/pine/
The site that will be closed is http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

Regards,
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*Art
Well, I guess all that's left.. by Channard · 2006-11-18 23:15 · Score: 5, Funny

.. is to drag the tree outside and put it by the bin, and then hoover up the needles.
Re:well there's always /usr/bin/mail by 91degrees · 2006-11-19 02:47 · Score: 5, Funny

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