Re: Hamster and Mozorg

In news.software.readers on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:12:04 -0700, Blinky
the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Wertz wrote:
On 18 Aug 2007 08:26:59 GMT, Blinky the Shark wrote:

Steve Wertz wrote:

Why not just use a newsreader that has built-in scoring and supports
multiple servers - like Dialog?

A check of my headers will reveal that I do use one (actually more than
one) that fit that description. I've been using TB only for one special
purpose, and I only recommend it to OE users, since most anything else
out there with the probable exception of Agent is better than TB.

I thought perhaps you only requirement would be a Windows-based
newsreader, and that it be able to get mozilla.*.

Nah. I decided to suffer the slings and arrows of Thunderbird just for
news.mozilla.org. I'd been using Pan and Xnews for it.

Is this sheer masochism, or is it that there are Thunderbird users in
mozilla.* to be helped?

I did set up this group on Hamster, and some microsoft* groups I knew
would provide plenty of Google Groupers for testing purposes. My *main*
reason for using Hamster was/is killing those posts so I can go back to
my old sig (below) rather than the new one I've recently been using
(since starting to use TB for moz org groups), which added the line
"Except in Thunderbird, which doesn't filter that well."

I'm glad you found what the problem was, and I hope you'll report the
dropdown-menu bug to the developers.

As you may know, there are hamster.* newsgroups - though I seem to
recall that they have the same kind of "real name" prejudice as de.*.

The solution (and refutation) for that kind of prejudice would be to
invent a plausible fake "real name" to use.

I do have Dialog on this, my Win laptop, where I'm playing with
Hamster/Chunderbird. It didn't sway me from Xnews, but I'd been using
it for email; Dialog is good software, albeit no longer developed.

I loved Dialog when I used Windows, and I'm still recommending it. Do
you (or anybody else) know if it's "no longer developed" to the extent
of not even getting security fixes? That would be a problem.


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PJR :-)
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