[7838] in SIPB bug reports
OLC should support pine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Sep 5 10:37:04 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:33:10 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200109051433.KAA02523@multics.mit.edu>
To: athena-rcc@MIT.EDU
cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
This morning, a long -c consult discussion ensued about whether pine
in the sipb locker was supported by OLC.
Some consultants opined that it was preferable to tell people to use
xmh or inc than to help out with an "unsupported" piece of software
[or something like that -- I may have the argument slightly wrong].
This seems drastically wrong to me. pine is a really popular mail
reader. dsgrepping in omail shows it gets upwards of 7% of the
questions (7% in 1000, 13% in 100).
Please consider supporting pine -- a lot of users use it, and it is
a quite reasonably program to support and deserving of front-line
support. Additionally, it will be in the release next year anyhow.
Thanks.
--jhawk
