Subject: Re: Pine, news, email, privacy

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Mercer)
Date: 23 Dec 1995 09:33:55 GMT

Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>wrote:
>On 21 Dec 1995, Jeff Mercer wrote:
>>As I said, I would alter PINE to ignore Newsgroups: lines in mail messages.
>>Not in news messages.
>>While it's not possible to detect if a message received in Email was also
>>posted to a Usenet newsgroup, it's fairly simple for PINE to internally know
>>if the user is reading a mail folder or a newsgroup.
>This is what I'm trying to tell you.  It isn't possible.  The best that
>you can do is a crude approximation, and there are cases in which it won't
>work.

Well unless it's illegal, I see no reason not to try. Why else distribute the
source?
If I can't make it work, *shrug*

>3.92 will be coming out soon; it fixes the cause of accidental postings
>and it does it right.  Why not wait until it's out.

I can. Why not hack on 3.91 while I'm waiting? I certainly won't let our
users run it unless its functional.

>>>The correct action is to anti-false the Newsgroups: header, which has been
>>>done in Pine 3.92.
>>Is this currently available?
>Pine 3.92 will come out Real Soon Now.  We can't make any promises yet.

That's fine. But that definately means I'm going to see what I can do with
3.91 in the meantime. We have 10,000+ users, most of which are pretty ignorant
of the Internet, and I want to minimize the problems that can happen by them
not understanding the difference between news and mail...

>However, the "to-do" list is getting shorter.  In case it isn't obvious,
>it will be a major new release.

Cool.

I really do love PINE. It's all I use for mail. People ridicule me for not
using Elm...  They laughed at me... Well I'll show them! I'll make them all
pay! AHAHAHAHAHA!!

*ahem*

Sorry.

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