Re: OT: Alternatives to Outlook Express?

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:15:51 -0500, "John D. Marinuzzi"
<web@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> quacked:

>
>I have used just about every newsreader there is over the past 15 years.
>The best I have found is Opera. The web browser sucks, but the newsreader
>is great. Thunderbird is nice, but I still like Opera more. One of it's
>biggest advantages is that it will track the threads you have posted to.
>You never to have search through all messages to see if folks reply to
>you...just look at your active threads. Problem is, it isn't (or was not,
>maybe changed) free.
>

As of version 8.5, Opera is free. If you have not updated, you might
want to give the browser a try --- it is certainly a couple of steps
up from IE. Now I've not used foxfire, so I can't compare it there.

Although I've used Opera a long time, I never thought to try the
newsreader (I've used agent for some time). Now I will. thanks for the
tip.
--McDuck
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