Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature Request

[Toby Inkster]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:41:20 -0500
David Rosenthal <address@hidden> wrote:

| >This rather goes against the entire philosophy of Unix/Linux -- that
| >you should have tools that do one thing and do it well. Pan does news
| >and it does it well. 
| 
| Well, to me it IS only one thing, Toby.  I'm sending text to a server
| via the Internet.  Or I'm reading text from a server retrieved via the
| Internet.

Well, web browsing is reading text from a server retrieved via the Internet, so 
we'd better add web browsing capabilities too. Oh, and you can send text to a 
server by FTP as well, so we should throw that it. You see? Feature creep.

| Could you please explain to me what the difference is between writing
| text to upload to a news server and writing text to upload to a mail
| server?  If the functionality to do one is already present, then the
| functionality is present for the other.

E-mail and news use entirely different protocols -- NNTP vs SMTP/POP3
 
| Where can I get this Sylpheed-claws?  I suppose for Libranet (Debian
| based distro) it would be in Unstable or Testing?  Well, I'll go look
| there, but if you could post a home page where I can get CVS's if
| needed I'd appreciate it.

http://sylpheed-claws.sf.net/
 
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