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Re: eudora thread bug
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:34:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Salm writes:
> On this rare occasion, I find myself not agreeing with Lar here.
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> Personal experience with Netscape News has been very troublesome. I love
> Netscape Navigator but Net-News likes to crash my machine or at least freeze • it
> up whenever I am multitasking, especially if I have Outlook Express or • Internet
> Explorer running. (Internet Explorer and Netscape do not even like to be on
> the same machines sometimes)
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> The recommendation to try Netscape News may not be a good one. Todd used to
> swear by Forte Free Agent and/or Agent; now I believe he promotes Microplanet
> Gravity as newsreader. I am a happy Gravity user myself but I do rely on
> Outlook Express for my primary mail/news client.
Don't worry, I won't *think* of trying a NetScrape product :) They annoy me
to death, just like Outlook and Outlook Express and how hard to use they are.
Especially with their insisting on using a variable-width font.
> Once you try Gravity, though, you will like it far better than Netscape News
> and it is far superior to Outlook Express (what isn't?). Plus there must be
> other newsreaders out there.
I'll give it a try, but I have a vendetta against newsreaders. I hate the
collapsing threading thing, and all the wacky settings. Plus, I'd like it
integrated with my email.
> As for Eudora, I must be behind the times. I use Eudora Pro 2.1.2 for my
> secondary and tertiary mailboxes, but I did not even know that Eudora Pro now
> had newsreader capability. Oh, well, I needed to learn something today...
Heh, yeah - and they have a Pro 4.3 beta out. I wonder when they're going to
come out with 5...its been a couple years.
-Tim (Eudora Forever!!)
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Then you want to look at Agent, not just Free Agent. It has integrated e-mail. It's a good product - I like it, although I use slrn to do all my news now. That way I don't have to worry about having different .newsrc files on many different (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: eudora thread bug
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| (...) That's wacky. Why? Seems rather predjudicial, and about as silly as saying "I have a vendetta against spreadsheets". (...) While that is not wacky! Collapsing threading is hugely powerful. (...) Among those wacky settings are the ability to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: eudora thread bug
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| (...) Collapsing threading? Agent comes with the option of expanding all threads initially. (...) Agent does email as well. Some people swear by it. I've just 5 minutes ago started testing it. Free Agent doesn't, though, IIRC. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: eudora thread bug
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| On this rare occasion, I find myself not agreeing with Lar here. Personal experience with Netscape News has been very troublesome. I love Netscape Navigator but Net-News likes to crash my machine or at least freeze it up whenever I am multitasking, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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