[mdlug] [WLUG] Future of Alpine/UW-imapd

[Peter Bart]

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 15:37 -0400, Jeff Hanson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I just heard about this today:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.imap/browse_thread/thread/7187f4d1f4478184/a0c4c96c4d365eb0?lnk=gst&q=thanks+fish#
> >
> > The Univ. of Washington laid off most of the Alpine development staff
> > back in May. It's not clear what will happen to Alpine or UW-imapd.
> > I'll keep using Alpine as my mail client no matter what, but as a
> > long-time Pine/Alpine user, it's sad to hear what happened.
> 
> I use Gmail and don't have much use for offline clients.  Web email is
> much more convenient as I can access it from anywhere with any PC.  I
> don't live through email so I'm not inconvenienced much when I don't
> have Internet access but with free WiFi hotspots (and insecure home
> networks) it's rare that I can't get it.  I suspect a lot of clients
> will be abandoned in the future:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients
> 
> I remember when Pegasus was all the rage back in the early Netware days.

	I'm on the opposite end, I use exclusively pc based programs because
invariably when I need something I have no connection.

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net