PINE Releases 4.50

wasaty writes "Yesterday new PINE came out. Main new feature is (at last!) threading support. Look here for a full list of changes." Ah, my first "real" e-mail program; watching it change is like watching evolution in motion.

Evolution in motion

[Delirium Tremens]

... watching it change is like watching evolution in motion.

Hum, not quite yet [ximian.com]. But, it is definitely catching up.

What does pine have againt elm anyway?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pine Is Not Elm? wtf?

Pine, Schmine...

[Ryu2]

Bah... /usr/ucb/Mail rules!

32-bit High Res Image of PINE

[ekrout]

Screenshot [stanford.edu] of PINE in action.

"PINE releases 4.50"

[nakaduct]

Good for them. I myself just released 2.10, for a can of pop and bag of chips. That comes on the heels of a 1.30 release, into a parking meter.

PINE in time for Christmas!

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

Get your brand new green PINE tree in time to decorate for christmas! You could mod it with all blue lights... imagine a beowulf cluster of christmas trees! Merry Christmas to all!

Seriously though, threads help a ton in organizing messages. :)

Re:Pine, Schmine...

[s20451]

Real men use cat /var/spool/mail/$USER | more and telnet $SMTP_HOST 25

+1, funny

[x mani x]

i dont think anyone realizes that your post is a joke.

First?!

[sielwolf]

Ah, my first "real" e-mail program

Careful, captain. Some of us are still using Pine.

Of course I'm not surprised by the reaction. My mother saw me sshing to my box once and said "Oh God, that brings back horrible memories..." Who says that UI has nothing to do with End User acceptance? Me personally: I love it. But to most people its like "Why do you go out hunting with a bow and arrow when we can get perfectly good meat down at the Kroger?"

Pine Users: the Ted Nugents of the Computing World!

Re:+1, funny

[ekrout]

I know, it's rather depressing.

Where have all the geeks gone? /me weeps

Re:are you kidding?

[miTTio]

quote:
watching it change is like watching evolution in motion

this is a bad pun, or a bad joke, or a funny mistake

D. All of the above

Re:PINE in time for Christmas!

[yack0]

Sorry, those blue lights aren't accepted into the changefiles, so they'll have to go. You may not release your own blue-light-PINE either.

Book em Dano

j

evolution is faster

[bobv-pillars-net]

watching it change is like watching evolution in motion.

...except that evolution is faster.

Score: -1 (Troll)

Re:Pine, Schmine...

[jandrese]

And todays award for gratuitous use of cat(1) goes to s20451. Today's prize is a book "How to use more(1)" by I.C. Weiner.

Re:32-bit High Res Image of PINE

[evilviper]

Wrong, wrong!!! HERE [cspforestry.com] is a shot of PINE in action!

Re:Pine, Schmine...

[stwrtpj]

I say:
$ lpr /var/spool/mail/$USER

So are you saying you're the pointed-haired boss from Dilbert that has his secretary print out all his emails? :)

Out of pine comes pico

[stype]

And don't forget about pico (pine composer), which has been making bad programmers worse for more years than I care to remember.

Threading

[Anonymous Coward]

I kept asking myself, "Why in the world would a text based e-mail need threading." I finally figured it out. It's not multithreading! Duh.

Re:32-bit High Res Image of PINE

[Anonymous Coward]

sweet screenshot... but man, you've gotta upgrade to OS X.

Re:Pine, Schmine...

[SirSlud]

>I get the feeling that people are more interested in what's flashy than simple

Get the feeling? You're only about 20 years behind microsoft's product development strategy. ;)

Re:First?!

[abe ferlman]

Not a fair analogy. A better one would be "Why go out hunting with a bow and arrow when you could chase squirrels, beat them senseless with your plastic Outlook cd case, then eat their brains?"

Re:Evolution in motion

[terkozer]

To really watch Evolution in motion peform the following steps...

• obtain one (1) laptop & install favourite linux distro (debian in my case)
• apt-get install evolution (or however you would install an app in your favourite distro).
• make sure laptop is unplugged from electrical, ethernet sockets..
• pick laptop up and hurl as far as possible across room.. (also, ignore all those wierd looks you get from co-workers)
• last but not least, hope atleast somebody finds this funny..

Re:Still useful

[CoolVibe]

Dearest Moderators: This is not flamebait, I am replying to myself to acknoledge that I made a stupid mistake.... thank you.

Open admission of self-made mistake... Are you _sure_ you're a slashdot regular? ;)

Watching Pine change

[antiher0]

Ah, my first "real" e-mail program; watching it change is like watching evolution in motion.

or watching grass grow.