Ozdude wrote:

Any way back to the point: I think Mozilla Thunderbird and Firebird
are far more compliant, serviceable and efficient than the M$
offerings.

I haven't tried either of them for news reading since I'm used to
Xananews (powerful, free, and occasionally cryptic). I am using Firefox
exclusively now as my web browser. I love the tabbed view and the very
nice text search functions a lot.

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Eric Schreiber
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