Subject: Re: Verbosity and Obscurity

From: Andy Behrens <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 16:57:04 -0500 (EST)

John Stumbles wrote:
> Suggestion:
> .pinerc/PINERC:
> 
> new-mail-from-string0='New mail! From: '
> new-mail-subject-string0=' - Subject: '
> 
> new-mail-from-string1='Knock knock - postman! '
> new-mail-subject-string1=' writing about: '

It's cute, but I don't think it's a good idea.  If pine is going to
have a million features, at least let them be things that are useful.

I vote for either "New mail from xxx: yyyyyyyyyy" or
		  "New mail! From: xxx; Subject yyyyyyyyyy",
but of those I like the plain ":" best.

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From: Dan Schlitt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 20:03:14 -0500 (EST)

It seems to me that you asking for problems which will require
considerable programing to protect against when you let these strings be
configurable in the rc file.  Is the added complexity really worth it?

/dan

Dan Schlitt                           School of Engineering Computer Systems
[email-masked]        City College of New York
(212)650-6760                         New York, NY 10031