Gmail vs Pine

Snarfed has an interesting review on Gmail vs Pine. From the article: "I've used Pine as my email client for, well, pretty much forever. I use it because it's fast, powerful, stable, and very keyboardable. (I hate the mouse.) However, since I work at Google, I'm constantly bombarded with people who ask me why I don't use Gmail. After hearing the nth person brag about how much it increased their productivity, I finally broke down and tried it. I didn't expect much, since I've never liked web-based email clients. However, I made myself use it as my only email client, for a month, to give it a fair shot."

Only one way to resolve this...

[AKAImBatman]

...GoogleFight! [googlefight.com]

GMail Email Client: 5,100,000 results
Pine Email Client: 2,080,000 results

Sorry dude. The unwashed masses have spoken. Time to upgrade!

Strange review!

[caluml]

'I've used the Royal Mail as my main communications method for, well, pretty much forever. I use it because it's fast, powerful, good value, and very reliable. (I hate UPS.) However, since I work at Google, I'm constantly bombarded with people who ask me why I don't use the Internet. After hearing the nth person brag about how much it increased their productivity, I finally broke down and tried it. I didn't expect much, since I've never liked clicking. However, I made myself use it as my only communication method, for a month, to give it a fair shot.'"

What is this? Some guy tries something that everyone has been using for years now? Hey - guess what I found out the other day - cars! I used to walk everywhere..... Hey! I found out about phones last week! They're great - I don't have to travel 50 miles to speak to ....

elm!

[eln]

Back in the dark ages before webmail, only newbies and English majors used pine. Everyone else either used mail or elm. I personally used elm, and still prefer it if I ever need to use a command-line mail utility, which isn't all that often these days.

The things I hated about Pine were that it unnecessarily reversed colors on the screen to look more "graphical," and its default editor was that horror known as Pico. I much preferred elm and vi.

Loser

[stinerman]

Heh ... you're using Pine? Real nerds just telnet to port 110.

</sarcasm>

Lucky guy

[canoramix]

If you work for Microsoft and you use Pine to access your Hotmail account you've already meet SteveB for a nice one-on-one :-)

Re:Only one way to resolve this...

[gmletzkojr]

I don't know how accurate that whole googlefight thing is. Did you see this one?
Google Fight [googlefight.com]

VM, Baby...

[Blrfl]

VM [wonderworks.com].

Re:One Point For Gmail

[CaptainTux]

Just logged into GMail from my shell using Lynx. You were saying?

Re:Lucky guy

[Anonymous Coward]

you mean chair-on-one?

"Snarfed"

[this great guy]

I suggest we all start using "snarfed" as a synonym for "slashdotted". As in "we have figuratively stolen your server('s bandwith)" == "we have slashdotted your server" == "we have snarfed your server". I like this word better anyway. Thank you, OP, for your contribution to the /. subculture language !

PS: Don't worry about your server, it will be back up online soon when the story will leave the front page.

Re:Whoa whoa...hold the phone here....

[ncc74656]

This guy works for Google, and he didn't use Googlemail?

Isn't that like working for GM and you drive a Ford? Or how about you work for Toyota and you drive a 1957 Belair because "I hate fuel injection".

You must be related to this /.er [slashdot.org].

BTW, fuel injection was available [wikipedia.org] on the '57 Bel Air.

Re:PINE + PortaPuTTY + Thumb Drive

[McCarrum]

DOH! /me cackles quietly to self.

Damn, I got n00b all over myself there ..

Re:PINE + PortaPuTTY + Thumb Drive

[cdrudge]

And a computer with a USB port but no Internet access is useful for e-mail how?

Re:Outlook is where its at

[wk633]

Outlook is also superior for auto-installation of help apps. With pine or gmail you have to download and run that attachment or word macro. Outlook does all that for you, although that feature is a little more limitted in recent versions.