Subject: Re: Maybe a solution? Re: Mailed Replies/News Articles

From: [email-masked] (The Shrim Dude!)
Date: 20 Mar 1995 02:09:07 GMT

In comp.mail.pine, some queer sunspot activity fomented Rahul Dhesi to pen:

 -  [email-masked] (Adam J Weitzman) writes:

 -  >and frankly I'm sick of it 
 -  >eating up so much space in my mailbox.
 -                                 ^^^^^^^
 -  Hmmmmm.....wonder whose side he's on...

 -  >Make posting news a completely different keystroke...

 -  Ah!  He's on our side.

What's this our side your side thing? Pine's thus far the best thing to
happen to Unix as far as making it user friendly is concerned....I learnt
(still learning) it the hard way....and sometimes feel envious about all
these new kids who have access to Pine to do their mail reading business
from the very start.

Agreed there's way a user who has absolutely _no clue_ can inadvertantly
post an e-mail to the usenet even after being repeatedly warned before
letting him to do it.

But the point is who are you trying to save? There are lotsa junky postings
already floating on the usenet. I'm not even talking about AOL users...
people who flame and post personal messages and then flame that on the net
and all that....private e-mail getting onto the net is nothing new, this
not by mistake but well intended...and even if it isin't a personal mail,
then they would spoof mail such a way that the origin is from a particular
user and then quote it.....so it is _NO_ big deal.

You guys should give the wonderful Pine Team a respite and let them concentrate
on developing Pine more and more and stop this nuisance.

Have an extremely enjoyable Sunday night!

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