Re: Agent 4.0 Well Worth The $15

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:31:49 -0700, Steve de Mena
<steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Donald L McDaniel wrote:

What exactly do you mean by re-wrapping? If you
mean if I adjust the message window narrow or wide
does it re-format the text, it does. (Actually
in Preferences there is an option to "Wrap text to
fit window width"). If that is not what you
meant, let me know.

There is also a boatload of configuration
possibilities if you dig down into its
configuration files (outside of the Preferences
exposed in the GUI). I did not like the way the
list of messages and groups initially appeared and
by editing a ".CSS" file I could tweak it to my
heart's desire.

Steve

While Thunderbird is a fair Newsreader, either for OS X, Linux, or
Windows, it still has poor filtering, and includes no Boolean Views
editor.

In addition, it has no ability to filter watched threads to the top of
the display, or recolor watched threads (though it does have a watched
thread icon in the Status column, which helps to redeem it a little).
This is (apparently) because of OS X's poor ability to sort on two or
more columns, which seems to be endemic to all other OS X newsreaders.

I think you can mark threads as "Important" etc
(Tags) instead of watching them and maybe do the
sorting you desire.

That really is a lot of extra work, considering that a decent Watch
and threading funtion should handle such sorting anyway.


It is absurd to think OS X has a "poor ability to
sort on two or more columns". First we are
talking about Thunderbird, which is not OS X and
is also a cross-platform application.

Actually, Steve, this inability (or unwillingness) to sort on more
than one criterion at at time seems to be endemic to ALL OS X
newsreaders (at least the ones I have tried, which is pretty much
EVERY GUI-based OS X newsreader), not just TB/OSX.

This is why I suspect it is an INTERNAL weakness of OS X.


Steve

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