Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Christian Kurz
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: > > > Well I tried pine at first (it did news, but not too good), then tried > > > SLRN, which was pretty good, but had no nice filtering/scoring. Then

SLRN killfiles (was: pine & mutt)

1999-02-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:13:38 -0700 (MST), John Galt wrote: >I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back >to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be >an essential tool in USENET. Uhm... U

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi John Galt, you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:13:38PM -0700: >I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back >to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be >an essential tool in USENET. You might want to read /usr/doc/slrn/SCORE_FAQ.gz, I

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-22 Thread John Galt
I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: > > Well I tried

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: > Well I tried pine at first (it did news, but not too good), then tried > SLRN, which was pretty good, but had no nice filtering/scoring. Then > I tried tin and it's IMHO great. Aroo? In what way is SLRN's scoring poor? IMHO it

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Steve Lamb, you wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:22:34PM -0800: >*WHY!?* Anyone familiar with mutt would know that it was modeled after >a newsreader, SLRN! So why contribute to bloat by having those two >functions in the same program, especially mutt, when one can have mutt and >slrn with s

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 04:39:38PM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: > Steve Willer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > Now I use mutt and tin and am quite happy with both. > > > > Sounds like mutt wasn't too good for news either. > > AFAIK mutt isn't currently meant to be a news reader. There are > patches t

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Adam Lazur
Steve Willer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Now I use mutt and tin and am quite happy with both. > > Sounds like mutt wasn't too good for news either. AFAIK mutt isn't currently meant to be a news reader. There are patches to make it do news however, but they aren't incorporated into the stable (B

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Steve Willer
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was > content about the way it handled email, but it sucked for news. And it > did not have color, which is very helpful (for me). There is a patch available for Pine that gives it some c

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Frederick Page
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 11:05:56AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >problems using mutt to send mail to a lot of people at once. Pine's way >of handling the addressbook and aliases works better for me. It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was content about the way it handle

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > So, do you think it is worth switching to mutt? Is it better in > terms of supporting mutiple folders?? I have used pine for quite a few years and tried out mutt for a few weeks last year - just to return to pine. I do not like mutt. Maybe I could

Re: pine & mutt

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 11:05:24PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi Shao, I've used pine for about 1 year never expirience too much, after switching the linux distribution from SuSE to Debian (2.0) i could'nt find pine, however. Therefore I have a look to mutt and installed this package after a couple o

pine & mutt

1999-02-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have been a happy pine user. But recently, I have heard that many people are using mutt, and it is really good & configurable. So, do you think it is worth switching to mutt? Is it better in terms of supporting mutiple folders?? Thanks. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2