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[Karl F. Larsen]

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Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Res wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>
>>> I too have been using Pine/Alpine for years. Be aware that development
>>> of Alpine has been abandoned by UW and the devel team has been "let go".
>> True, but I never had any problems with even the original pine (which I
>> still have installed on my slackware and redhat boxes) so its not a
>> stresser if development has ceased, it's like a few other things I use
>> that have not been worked on in years, alpine is not 0.00000001% as
>> exploitable as GUI browsers, and stable, the only thing I never liked
>> about it was the delay in ticks before checking for a break in nntp, but
>> been used to that for close on two decades now so i just go make a coffee :)
> 
> You're right about Pine not having problems. I ran an older version for 
> years with no problems and never upgraded to a later version. I'm 
> running Alpine on the new box and it's at least as good.
> 
> Bug/security fixes, being patches, have to be applied, recompiled, and 
> in my case, .deb packages created because I want to use the package 
> manager to keep track of things. Also, to me, the one drawback to 
> Pine/Alpine was the lack of encryption support. yes, I know there are 
> several scripts to enable encryption use but I've tried almost all I 
> could find with little or no success.
> 

	I was able to get alpine with apt-get install and it does bring
memories flooding back. I was not able to compile pine on Ubuntu Hardy
due to missing libs. It would take awhile to get pine working.

	Tried to send me a Internet email from alpine and it tried but expect
sendmail has to be set up. Last time I did that it took over a week!

	So it's nice you all have the same ideas with pine.


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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