[geeks] Rant: Tech Regression

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Thu Oct 25 16:06:03 CDT 2007


On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

>> By using PINE, I effectively have that on my home account, but it'd
>> be unreasonable to do at $ork because so many folks think that
>> communication has to be gaudy and irritating to be read.
>
> The script I had in mind (which I thought I got from you) uses lynx to
> output formatted ascii, rather than just showing the full HTML code.
> Let me try and find that, although I don't know how you would set up
> such a script in Pine.

Yeah, I know how to rig that up, but PINE does a nice job of rendering
minimalist HTML.

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USA                   )                                    --David Willis



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