Pine/alpine [was: $35 LAN Party...]

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:26:26AM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
>> ah, don't worry. No-one under 40 knows what pine is, anyway. We can have
>> the same words meaning different things; we are sophisticated that way.
>
> I am under 40 and I know what pine is.
>
> And apt-get install pine could only install one of them (not that you
> would want pine on your system, nor is it in debian due to license
> issues upstream).

    Pine is longer maintained. It is now called alpine, and the license
    issues no longer apply. It is still the only mail client I use.

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