Re: Camp Club USA ?

Janet Wilder wrote:
Bruce S wrote:
Janet Wilder wrote:
Bruce S wrote:
bill horne wrote:
Janet Wilder wrote:
I use Thunderbird as my newsreader and I catch crap for it all
the time.<g>
I use the newsreader in Seamonkey - which is almost the same as
Thunderbird - and I don't care.
I have tried both of those, and although I didn't really like
either one, I liked Seamonkey better than Thunderbird.

Bruce

What was better about Seamonkey?

Its been a couple months, so I really don't remember. I do know
that I liked the mail/news reader in Seamonkey better enough to put
a link for just that service on my desktop, while I deleted
Thunderbird. Knowing me, it might have been something as simple as
aesthetics or the way certain buttons worked, but it may have been
some sort of more important difference. Either way, I liked
Seamonkey better for mail/news, but I really didn't like Seamonkey
for its browser - among the Mozilla based offerings, I liked Firefox
the best - although I use Google Chrome almost exclusively. And,
for full disclosure, I ended up staying with Outlook Express as my
mail/news reader - I simply like it best of everything I have tried.

Thanks for the answers. I appreciate your time taken to answer me.

I have been using a personal computer since 1995 and have never used
Outlook Express. Main reason was that I got my email via AOL, which at
$5.95 per month worked better for me as a full timer than anything
else and I had discovered Netscape quite early on. I never used AOL's
horrid browser though I did get my newsgroup subscription through
them and used their newsreader, which I really, really liked.

Just around the time that Netscape was ending it's updatable life, I
moved over to the Mozilla Suite. That gave me the newsreader for when
AOL stopped carrying newsgroups and I switched to news.individual.net
when it was free.

I had moved to Firefox for quite a while and was still using the old
Mozilla Suite's newsreader until I decided to download Thunderbird and
got rid of the old Suite. Then I switched to astraweb and the rest is
history. I used one TB add-on for the newsreader that keeps the
threads in colors to help identify them but I think it went away on
one of the updates. I'll have to find it again.

I did try the free version of agent for a while and it was just too
cumbersome as compared to Mozilla Suite and later TB.

Based on all the hatred expressed here for Outlook Express, I tried several
email and/or news readers, including Agent (full version), Pan, Thunderbird,
and about five others. I didn't like any of them - I suppose that I am set
in my ways and used to OE. So, until the time comes that I am forced to
change, I will stick to OE, and when that time comes, I will start the
search for something that I like as well.

Bruce



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