Re: question

astri wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Puddles wrote:
>> astri wrote:
>>> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Juniper wrote:
>>>> In article <Pine.BSI.4.64.0810111514180.10939@malasada.lava.net>,
>>>> astri <astri@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> so, what is pine?
>>>>>
>>>>> heh.
>>>>>
>>>>> won't do you any good if you don't have a shell account with your
>>>>> isp. (heee.  we know you don't know what that is, but gonna make
>>>>> you ask.)
>>>>>
>>>>> it's not really a true newsreader, anyway.  it's an email program
>>>>> that takes newsgroups and makes them act like email boxes (well,
>>>>> sort of). if we wanted to have a true newsreader, we'd need to use
>>>>> tin or trn or one of those.  but we like the simplicity of pine
>>>>> and some of the things we can do *because* it's not a real
>>>>> newsreader.
>>>>>
>>>>> (have we broken your brane yet?)
>>>>
>>>> I would have called it a newsreader which runs on a Unix shell
>>>> account, for true geeks.  I started off reading and posting via
>>>> pine way back when.
>>>
>>> true geeks would tell you it's not a newsreader, however.  it's an
>>> email program.  the unix shell newsreaders are the trn type
>>> programs.
>>
>> oh for goodness sakes, what is a trn type program?
>
> newsreader program for shell access.
>
> -- astri
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ok, so shell in not newsreader but you need trn type program to access
shell which is a newsreader program for shell. (short stubby sigh)
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