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Re:Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that... by ecuzzillo on Sunday March 04, 2007 @02:22PM (#2206)
Having not lived the days of yore, I'm guessing that there were inferior mail clients that came before pine that are now long-forgotten because pine was better. Gmail is a similarly superior online email; it may not be the first, but it's the best, and that's all anyone remembers.
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Re:Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that... by precipice on Sunday March 04, 2007 @06:48PM (#2231)
Yes, ecuzzillo said exactly what I meant. I also remember reading that Gmail consciously adopted Pine keyboard shortcuts (though I may have that wrong), which is why I made the direct link. Gmail seems like a very UNIX-y web mail client, where Hotmail, say, was not.

-Marc Hedlund

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Re:Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that... by Elfan on Monday March 05, 2007 @12:10AM (#2277)
A Google employee and Pine contributer (Ryan Barrett) compared the two and gave his thoughts on the matter:

http://snarfed.org/space/gmail%20vs%20pine

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Re:Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that... by dfranke on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:42PM (#2224)
Well, elm came before pine, and the mailreader I use now, mutt, is elm-descended.
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