Re: cone as pine replacement

hawat.thufir@gmail.com writes:

> I had trouble getting pine to work with leafnode, which, I don't think,
> is a difficulty unique to me. (I think that the developers of each
> blame each other for the imcompatability?)
>
> I was just looking at cone,
> , as an alternative. What I
> primarily like about pine is that it does both news and e-mail.
> Personally, I prefer pine to slrn, although I'm unable to articulate
> why slrn doesn't work for me as a newsreader. I do like slrnpull,
> though, but slrnpull has limitations.
>
> So, is there at least one person out there who uses cone? ;)

The only person I know who uses Cone is its author - Sam, who regularly
posts in comp.mail.misc.

I've set followups there, so maybe he'll respond.

--
Neil.
Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience.

Re: cone as pine replacement

Neil Woods wrote:
[...]
> > So, is there at least one person out there who uses cone? ;)
>
> The only person I know who uses Cone is its author - Sam, who regularly
> posts in comp.mail.misc.
[...]

Heh, "true" open source project ;)

I suppose one of the reasons Pine is somewhat "out of favor" is that
it's not GPL'd :(


-Thufir