Re: Apple IIe Card for Mac LC II

In article <3KqdnZTlKset4KHbnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
William Garber <willy46pa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


This being my 2nd attempt at using Mozilla's Thunderbird, I still see
no reason to swap out OE for that, being it's not really much more than
a OE look-alike, anyway.

Apparently, you don't get much spam mail.... if you did, you would
appreciate the (compared to OE) supreme capabilities of Thunderbird's
spam filter. It uses Bayesian filtering, which means the filter is
self-learning: you just mark each spam and other unwanted mail as
garbage, and as time goes, Thunderbird learns more and more about what
you don't wish to receive - and it moves all that stuff to the Trash
folder automatically. You need to empty the Trash folder from time to
time, but that's a simple operation. No other folder can be cleared
as simnply as the Trash folder.

Another nice property of Thunderbird is that it doesn't do too much
automatically, it asks you for confirmation first. It doesn't even
show linked-in images automatically, but only if you tell it to do so
for that particular email. OE does all of this by itself,
automatically - and many people have been bitten by that, having got
trojans and other nasty stuff installed on their computers just by
examining some email. Of course these people used accounts with
administrator's access rights when that happened - and if you do that
carelessly, in the end you'll get what you deserve....

So take another, deeper, look at Thunderbird. Superficially it may look
like an OE lookalike, but "under the hood" it's much better. And it's
opensource too - which means if there's some property of Thunderbird
you strongly dislike, you can fix it so it suits your needs better!
You can't do that with OE......

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