On Sun 13 Aug 2023 at 02:41:30 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > My apology - I failed to see the reference to alpine linux, and, due > to scurrilous actions, the first result in searching, using > duckduckgo, on the combination of > alpine email application mailing list > is the URL for the disreputable operating system above. > > I have used alpine, and, before alpine, its predecessor, pine, for > about 30 years. > > I know nothing of alpine linux. > > It is unfortunate and shameful, that the name of the alpine email > application,has been used for something completely different. > > It is like someone using the name Debianporn.
Hmm, AFAICT the Alpine(linux) codename was already mentioned in this post from 23 August 2005: https://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/mailman/message/12731159/ whereas for Alpine(email), a post from 1 November 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20070116190434/http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/pine-info/2006-November/055008.html refers to a UW web page stating that development of Alpine started in "late 2005", which I would place post-August. Cheers, David.
