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Like most other big schools, our email cluster was in a Sun OS box. It was beginning of my undergraduate career. Pine can provide all of the above and it was fulfilling my needs just fine. And yes, if you are a Usenet junkie, you need an email client that works as a news reader as well. You need a client that is easy to use, can handle spam, easily tunes with your favorite operating system / desktop environment.

A good, trusty email client in these days of information overload is necessary. I receive about 200 emails(not counting spam) on average a day. On a serious note, a big chunk of my work depends on reading and responding to emails. From the latest spam to enlarge my certain organ to the email from an old friend - I just love getting emails. I will admit my addiction for checking emails. Email has been an integral part of my daily life. We have our bad times, but overall I am happy with the switch. Although, sometime I miss the simple, fast, text based interface, the new relationship is shaping up to be an exciting one. I dumped my good old Pine and settled with a graphical client. Recently, I decided to move to a greener posture.

I had been an avid user of Pine for almost five years.