Subject: Wishes for Pine Improvements

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 18:17:47 EST

I love Pine!  It isn't as flexible as Elm or as Mac-like as the Mac-Eudora
client.  Nor does it act as a client that will phone my account periodically
like AOL does.  Still it is a wonderful product.  My students, who are local
teachers, have found ways to circumvent their VMS account, which doesn't use
Pine, to telnet to WSUV, which does.  That's proof of its ease of use.  

I would like to see Pine as a Mac POP client that uses the communications
toolbox, much as Eudora does.  There are many advantages to reading and
writing mail offline.  The first is that I can't get online.  there just
aren't enough dialups anymore.  The second is that when I do get on, the net
is too slow to think and write at the same time.  This is why I've started
forwarding my mail to AOL from my UNIX account.  I can't check my mail
several times per day automatically and read and write offline.  When the
dialups are busy, I don't worry because I know they will eventually be free
and I don't have to keep trying to get on manually. 

I'd also like to see multiple personal and shared addressbooks.  This would
help me organize my lists (e.g., class, 
committee, department, professional, etc.).  

Keep up the good work.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:10:07 -0800 (PST)

Mark,

Thanks for the nice words!  We have recently recieved word of two separate
VMS pine ports by outside contributors, so the VMS people may not be out in
the cold forever... 

It does not look like offline support will make it into the next release 
of Pine, but we are hoping to get something put together soon.  We also 
plan to implement multiple addressbook support soon.

Thanks for the requests!

--DLM

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