Subject: Planned enhancement doc via ftp?

From: [email-masked] (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 23:34:07 PDT

Is there a document evailable containing a list of planned pine
features?  I have a few suggestions, but I would like first to know
what is the current state, so that I won't waste everybody's time.

Thanks

-- Ran

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From: Omi Chandiramani <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 03:31:04 -0400 (EDT)

> what is the current state, so that I won't waste everybody's time.
[..]
Go ahead and make your requests. The importance of a request is judged by 
the number of times it appears on this list. A debatable algorithm but 
thats how it works.. 

Omi Chandiramani
[email-masked]

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 20:04:29 +0800 (TPE)

> the number of times it appears on this list. A debatable algorithm but 

	Please don't take that statement so literally.  I'm sure that the
priorities placed on enhancements are determined by more than the number
of requests.  Also, before you decide to ask for an enhancement...think
about it for a day or two.  Is it really something that would be wanted 
and needed by others?  One has to start being concerned about creaping
featurism.  Also, as more and more people start using pine you have to
starting thinking about how changes are going affect more and more people.

	I see the time coming where a "final" release of pine should occur.
It should be feature rich enough for the average email user to be happy
using it and as bug free as possible.  You will then have a mature product
that many people will be happy with and won't feel the need to keep current.
And think of all the fun you will have with the context to name the next
generation...

					Ed

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