Re: [ProgSoc] pine

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:26:51AM +1000, David Edney wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:12, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:46:57PM +1000, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
> > > At 3:33pm on the 16th of April, David Edney wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:22, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
> > > > > Someone's being "funny". Use /usr/bin/pine instead.
> > > >
> > > > LOL, "wildfire" seems to be having some fun.
> > >
> > > That's so lame.
> >
> > Encouraging people to use a better alternative is lame? Next you'll be
> > saying that popping up a message if people used Netscape pointing out
> > Mozilla was dumb.
> 
> Well, adding a script which makes us sit at the prompt waiting to get in is a 
> bit lame.  If you want to encourage people to use a program, do it through 
> the mailing list, not through annoying people who don't use the program.

The point of the script was to make you aware of the problem. While I could
have had it send you an email a small pause was simpler.

Anand

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