Re: [MLUG] pine on bengal...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:44:58 -0500 (CDT), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the problem.  First, why can't you just copy a
> Pine executable to your ~/bin directory on Bengal and use that?  

Uh...because I'm guessing they don't want that (and I'm up against my
quota on bengal anyway)?

> I would also ask them why they are deleting the pine executable!  

Dunno, but there have been like a bazillion security exploits against
it in the past, and it might be the only mail reader around on bengal,
so getting rid of it gets bengal out of the mail business.  I know *I*
don't want to be in the mail business, so I have substantial sympathy
with the idea.

> Second, why can't you just scp/sftp your mail files to another machine?

Maybe that's possible, but I kind of doubt it since we're talking
about an MS Exchange server  somewhere, not bengal itself.

Seriously, I can (alas) think of a lot of good reasons not to
encourage mail use on bengal, prime among them people like me.

jking
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