First impressions of pine (used exclusively as a Usenet agent):

It takes forever to get the simplest of things done with the virtual keyboard (the 770 was clearly never intended to be a console-driven workstation).

I can manually subscribe to newsgroups, but after subscribing to one (1!) newsgroup, the 770 spontaneously rebooted while downloading the articles list.

After reboot, pine's all screwed up: it can't remember my newsserver, insists on usernames and passwords (which it should be getting from the router anyway) and generally does nothing anymore.

Premature conclusion: pine's a pain on my 770. I'll give it another go tonight, but unless some miracle happens, it goes down the black hole.

<sigh> I'll have to settle for Google Groups I guess...