Subject: mail Help

From: Yufei Cheng <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:33:29 -0600 (CST)

Dear Sir/madam

I am using PINE in Mac and I do not know what I did, the in-come mails
are not saved in the folder after reading. When I log-in second time there
is only one massege in the in-come fold which is "Do not delete this
text...". Would you please give me a hint. Thanks

Yours sincerely
Yufei Cheng

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Dr. Yufei Cheng
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1101 University Av
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
USA

Tel: (608) 262 4465

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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 08:55:18 -0800 (PST)

Dear Dr. Cheng,
1. Personal dislikes aside, (I personally detest Macs with a passion)
using PC Pine on a Mac is inefficient at best. You are seeing some of the
problems that can result from that usage, hence your post to the list.
2. I recommend using a telnet session, and Pine on the remote system. You
are also saved the heartache of backups, and all mail is available to you
from more than one location.
3. If you are committed to using PC Pine, I suggest you uninstall and
reinstall it. Troubleshooting what's wrong may take longer than simply
ripping it out, and then doing a reinstall.
Good Luck.
-Colin.
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Colin J. Raven
Network & Systems Administrator
HDS Lab, Inc.
Costa Mesa CA  |  Harrison NY
"Mac Users are Iraqi's. Macs are the Scud Missiles that never got lanched"
(Fred Pasternack circa 1996 after hand hacking X config files for 14
hours)

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:10:43 -0800 (PST)

I personally detest using PCs. PCs stand for Piece of Crap.

Andrew Le

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:31:54 -0600 (CST)

>From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
>Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:10:43 -0800 (PST)

>I personally detest using PCs. PCs stand for Piece of Crap.

Personally, I've always wanted a supercomputer at home. But, I can't afford the
care and feeding of a Cray engineer that comes with it.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:09:24 +0800 (GMT)

> care and feeding of a Cray engineer that comes with it.

Or the electric bill.....

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 08:27:15 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Andrew Le wrote:

> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: mail Help
> 

would you prefer we all used mainframes?

(hey, it depends on the definition of PC..do you mean personal computer,
as in no one should use their own computer, or personal computer meaning a
micro-computer? or do you mean an Intel or Intel clone based machine? Or
do you mean the Intel/clone based machine on your desk running a M$ OS and
random M$ apps, which I'll agree sucks like a hoover.)

Vinnie

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:33:29 -0800 (PST)

I prefer we all use Unix, such as Solaris or HP-UX.

Andrew Le

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:25:25 -0800 (PST)

what about linux?

I run a PC (of the intel definition) with linux.

I would say that it very much doesn't suck.

Vinnie

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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Andrew Le wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:33:29 -0800 (PST)
> To: Drachen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: mail Help
>

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:39:32 -0800 (PST)

Ya, Linux is Unix for PC so it's cool too...

Andrew Le

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From: Shoeless in San Jose <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:20:53 -0800 (PST)

Good luck getting the rest of the world to go along.  They seem to think
that Micro$lop is the best thing around!

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 16 Mar 1998 23:52:50 +0100

> Ya, Linux is Unix for PC so it's cool too...

Apart from the fact that linux runs on almost any platform, including
Nintendo 64 and Palm Pilot, this is not really the correct place to
discuss these issues.

Apart from that:

1. crop your fscking quotes - you just quoted about 40 lines to get
   this very deep and meaningful piece of information across...
2. use a meaningful subject (what's mail Help?)
3. have you ever heard of signatures?

Geez...

Robin

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Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
alt.advocacy.pico  To support those oppressed by vi and emacs.

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:11:53 -0800 (PST)

they're dying, slowly.

I have a personal pet theory that M$ will go down for the simple reason
that you can't fix problems. I mean, it's one thing when most of the
computer owners can't fix anything anyway..but in another generation, with
children who grew up programming in C, they'll be able to fix any software
problem at all, really-- just hand them the source code... and then M$
will truly die.

I must be smoking something :)

Vinnie
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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:30:47 -0600 (CST)

>From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
>Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:11:53 -0800 (PST)

>problem at all, really-- just hand them the source code... and then M$

It'll happen sooner than that: Purchasers will demand quality.

Hahahahahahaha