I have also used Eudora Lite and Pine and have been very
satisifed with both--never been struck down by a virus and both are easy
to use.  However, there is a growing movement, esp. in the college and
university community, to drop both of these because they are supposedly
easy to hack into (there are also folks who don't want to use HTML).
Fans of either of these--esp. Pine, which has been most commonly used and
thus is the biggest target--may wish to check with their employers to make
sure that they will continue to be available.

A. DeAngelis, editor,
Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
(http://www.efn.org/~acd/resources.html)


On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, P Boylan wrote:

> =============================
>
> As such a high proportion of current macro viruses and "worms" seem to be
> specific to Microsoft Outlook mail systems one other alternative is to use
> another mail system.  I currently handle mail almost entirely in Unix
> using the University of Washington's free and widely used "pine" mail
> system.
>
> However, where this isn't possible there are some very good non-Microsoft
> mail programmes available free of charge for educational and governmental
> users (which must between them cover most museums).  I particularly like
> Eudora Lite (http://www.eudora.com).
>
> I suppose that in some ways this is giving in to the virus writers, many
> of which seem to be attacking Microsoft - or as they would say it the
> allegedly poor security standards of some of Microsoft's software,
> particularly Outlook and Word.
>
>
> Patrick Boylan

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