On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 12:07:16AM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote: | Why not just hack a pine-style main menu, configuration screen, imap, and | keyboard cheat-sheet onto mutt. They've already got a config file floating | around that makes it emulate all the PINE keystrokes, and it's already a | fully functional mailer. | |If PINE users are happy to switch to this, this is a fine approach. |Someone else argued that this would not be enough to make PINE users |happy. I don't directly know what would or wouldn't satisfy them, but |he seemed to have some familiarity with them. | |I think it would be good to look carefully at the points he made, |and to compare them carefully with the ways that the modified Mutt |would look different from PINE. That seems like a good way to |get a handle on this issue.
I miss nntp in mutt. I switched to mutt recently after reading about present pine license, but I had to install also slrn for newsgroups. The free pine would be _very_ welcome because of combined mail and news. I don't think this is possible soon with mutt modifications, so I bet on forking last free pine. If OpenBSD is able to make openssh from last free ssh, it should be possible to make gpine from last free pine. --JS
