Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain

Daemon Duck writes "One of the web's oldest and most respected email clients is flickering out of existence. Pegasus mail and its companion SMTP server, Mercury32, have been discontinued due to lack of funding for the ongoing development. On the website, the author David Harris states that if some funding becomes available he would consider opening the source code or continuing the development."

well then...

[macadamia_harold]

It is official; Slashdot now confirms: *Pegasus is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Pegasus community when /. confirmed that *Pegasus market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all clients. Coming close on the heels of a recent /. survey which plainly states that *Pegasus has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Pegasus is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Pegasus' future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Pegasus faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Pegasus because *Pegasus is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Pegasus. As many of us are already aware, *Pegasus continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

There can no longer be any doubt: Pegasus is dying.

Re:Evolution in action

[i.r.id10t]

No Evolution is that outlook like email app that comes with gnome...

Re:Why not open it now?

[Secret Rabbit]

No shit! It's like this guy is looking for a bribe to open the code.

They would have been long gone by now...

[Anonymous Coward]

...but BSD was plugging up the drain hole. Or so I've been told from time to time.

I don't blame him.

[Rob T Firefly]

If his code looks anything like mine, he's just too damn embarassed to show the world his tangled mess of strings, variables, and "Mystery Science Theater 3000" references that can only be called "code" due to its inarguable existence as electronic data that someone could tentatively try to run through a magical compiler if one were extraordinarily optimistic that the whole wretched thing would somehow do something not all that far from its intended function without damaging anything or anyone else near the computer desk physically or emotionally.

Re:Evolution in action

[patio11]

One thee pus said thee bran disambiguates butter.