Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client?

From	Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client?
Date	2018-06-11 12:47 -0400
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2018, Sparc IPX wrote:

> [snip]
>
> I've used pine for ages, mostly out of habit.
>
Yes.  When I first had full internet access, it was 1996 and at the 
Montreal Freenet, so the software ran on their server, and pine was what 
they selected.  The freenet only lasted four months (after three years of 
waiting) but I'd already invested enough in it that I stuck with it, even 
22 years later.  When I finally had a computer that would run Linux, I 
started off with Debian, because it was the "least commercial" 
distribution at the time, but it didn't include pine, its license not 
matching Debian's concept of "free".  I needed pine at that point, late 
2000, but didn't feel up to installing from elsewhere (obviously 
something I would have done later if I'd stuck with Debian).  So 
when I saw a copy of "Slackware Linux for Dummies" at the local 
bookstore with a torn cover, and a discount price, I checked to see that 
it included pine, and went with that, still sticking to Slackware 17 years 
later.

Since I'd gotten used to it, because it was available, I've never seen a 
reason since then to try others.  I have always been happy with pine, of 
course now it's alpine.

   Michael

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Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-15 02:04 +0000
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-05-15 02:48 +0000
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2018-05-15 08:13 +0300
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2018-05-18 22:43 -0300
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2019-04-17 23:49 -0700
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            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2019-04-23 08:03 +0300
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-29 16:44 -0400
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      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-05-15 09:04 +0000
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com> - 2018-05-15 09:32 -0400
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-05-15 14:13 +0000
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-05-15 10:42 -0400
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-05-16 04:28 +0000
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-05-15 10:27 +0100
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dario Niedermann <dario@darioniedermann.it> - 2018-05-15 11:09 +0200
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-05-15 10:10 +0100
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2018-05-15 12:55 +0200
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-05-15 11:36 +0000
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2018-05-15 12:58 +0200
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-05-15 22:50 +0300
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-05-15 20:53 +0000
      Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-05-18 10:11 +0300
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2018-05-15 15:38 -0500
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        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-06-05 11:05 +0000
        Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-06-05 12:39 +0000
          Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-05 18:37 -0400
            Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-06-05 22:58 +0000
  Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Sparc IPX <sparcipx@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2018-06-09 18:33 +0000
    Re: Slashdot asks: what's your favorite email client? Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net> - 2018-06-11 12:47 -0400

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