Subject: Re: WWW on Pine?

From: David Soergel <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Feb 1995 06:05:40 GMT

Mary Susan Freeman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Can you get www on pine?

No.  In a text-based environment, use Lynx.  In a graphical 
environment, use Netscape if you can, otherwise Mosaic.  There are
some other web browsers available too... Cello for example.

The WWW is interactive; you move around in it in real time.  Pine
does only email and news.

-David

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From: Mary Susan Freeman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 17:53:49 -0600

Can you get www on pine?

Susan F.

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From: Robin Callender <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:30:53 -0800

> does only email and news.

Sorry David, but I think you are missing a important request here.  
I would refine the question to "why is there no text/URL mime type".  If 
this type was "blessed" then the mailcap file could be set to envoke any 
Web "viewer" the user's system could support.  The two "killer apps" in 
the internet are WWW browers and e-mail.  Currently many of the Web 
browsers provide some type of e-mail interface.  It sure would be nice to 
be able to include an attachment which when viewed would access info via 
a URL. This would provide the ultimate  MIME .signature facility.
Of course this is possible now in a non-standard way, but it would move 
much more quickly towards becoming a standard if PINE backed it.

I believe the PINE dev. team are leaders in providing MIME-based 
mail systems, and are in a good position to "show the possibilites" of MIME 
e-mail.  I feel that this type of integration between the WWW world and 
MIME e-mail will soon happen...the question is how well will this 
integration be thought out and who's bennefit will it serve. Let's not 
let MS, or the likes, again set defacto "standards".  

Keep up the good work.

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From: Joe Ducharme <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 13:41:21 -0600

You can get WWW via pine two ways. One way is getting a page without html 
tags and the other is with them (you get the page, save it as an html or 
htm file, and view it with your own browser. This is good if you are 
behind a firewall, I imagine. You must know the url you are requesting.

Send email to: [email-masked]
no subject
for pages without html tags type:
send http://address.of.url/more/information/here

for the tags still embedded, type:
source http://address.of.url/more/information/here

Of course, you'd type out the address you're interested in. NOTE: I 
haven't tried this myself, I'm just passing on what I read. Laters...
 
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