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From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-04 11:03:08


"John Torjo" <john.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:416179B8.7000006_at_torjo.com...
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>
> > "Stefan Slapeta" <stefan_nospam__at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> > news:cjkj7t$a8u$2_at_sea.gmane.org...
> >
> >>John Torjo wrote:

> >>>Mozilla Thunderbird really rocks! I really recommend it.

> >>I can just second that! I've been using it for a long time now since
> >>they released the first betas.

> > Last time I used Mozilla for reading newsgroups (over a year ago) if found
that
> > it would frequently report a particular numbers of messages as unread (the
> > number would appear in parantheses after the newsgroup name) but no messages
in
> > my inbox would by marked as unread. I could never tell whether the reported
> > number of unread messages was an error, or if there really were some unread
> > messages getting lost. So I switched to Outlook.
> >
>
> Why newsgroup, instead of subscribing to the list?

Well, I started out using the mailing list, but I chose to receive digests which
was probably a mistake.

> As a side-note, I'm really sneeky ;)

Of course ;-)

> I have an email address that is for
> subscribing to lists only. Thus, no need for news ;)

I guess I could have one email address for each mailing list. Outlook seems to
be pretty well-behaved, except for occasional concatenation of subject lines.

>
> Best,
> John
>

Jonathan


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