[Thinkpad] ENOUGH - Re: Top posting,.....

[Desertech]

There is not doubt that PINE, ELM, and Gopher open your computer to
all sorts of vulnerabilities... but still the invader would have to
know that one of them was installed... or be very lucky in its
detections... I would never put any of the three on any institutional
computer due to the risks... invasion becomes easy once the evil doer
knows you have one of them installed.

RayBay



On Dec 26, 2007 3:15 AM, Alex Austin <circuitsoft.alex at gmail.com> wrote:
> I attempted to install pine4 on my FreeBSD box just now, and the port warned
> me that it has had remote access vulnerabilities in the past, and that it's
> coding style made it difficult to logically verify security.
>
> I'm going to see what mutt-ng is like, due to that warning, but I'll try
> pine anyway if people really think it's worth it.
>
> - A
>
>
> On Dec 26, 2007 3:17 AM, David Ross <ross at math.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I am still using PINE. Fast, no worry with viruses, follows mailbox
> > > standards so I can use well known free tools to organize my mail in
> > > folders the way I want it.
> >
> > I use PINE whenever I'm on a Unix box.
> >
> > David
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