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Thunderbird as a newsreader?

Ted L.

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Hey all you geeks -- how is Thunderbird as a newsreader? I won't go into
all the details why, but I wanted to move several years of archived mail
from three different mailsystems from a PC to my Mac and it looked like
Thunderbird turned out to be the easiest route, so I now have it installed
on both my PC and Mac. (The email made it across just perfectly, btw -- 150
M zipped.) I have no particular reason to use it as a mailreader, but I see
it can do news too -- how is it compared to other newsreaders?

--
Ted L.

Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.

Grace

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Ted L. wrote:
> Hey all you geeks -- how is Thunderbird as a newsreader? I won't go into
> all the details why, but I wanted to move several years of archived mail
> from three different mailsystems from a PC to my Mac and it looked like
> Thunderbird turned out to be the easiest route, so I now have it installed
> on both my PC and Mac. (The email made it across just perfectly, btw -- 150
> M zipped.) I have no particular reason to use it as a mailreader, but I see
> it can do news too -- how is it compared to other newsreaders?
>
> --
> Ted L.
>
> Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.
>
>
It works fine for me, Ted.

Charlie M. 1958

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Fred Exley

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

In article <0I4uh.132$as3.113776@news.sisna.com>, TedL719@yahoo.com says...
> Hey all you geeks -- how is Thunderbird as a newsreader? I won't go into
> all the details why, but I wanted to move several years of archived mail
> from three different mailsystems from a PC to my Mac and it looked like
> Thunderbird turned out to be the easiest route, so I now have it installed
> on both my PC and Mac. (The email made it across just perfectly, btw -- 150
> M zipped.) I have no particular reason to use it as a mailreader, but I see
> it can do news too -- how is it compared to other newsreaders?
>
> --
> Ted L.
>
> Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.
>

Somebody please correct me if this is incorrect, but with Thunderbird I can't find any way to search through the BODY of all posts, to find something. It seems to only allow searching the Subject header (Edit / Find / Search Messages).

sharx35

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

"Grace" <gracehXXX@spiritone.com> wrote in message
news:epal9001ues@enews4.newsguy.com...
> Ted L. wrote:
> It works fine for me, Ted.

Well, your dildo obviously works fine for you, too, Grace. Most women,
though, prefer the pork sword.

Mark Warner

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Ted L. wrote:
> Hey all you geeks -- how is Thunderbird as a newsreader? I won't go
> into all the details why, but I wanted to move several years of
> archived mail from three different mailsystems from a PC to my Mac
> and it looked like Thunderbird turned out to be the easiest route, so
> I now have it installed on both my PC and Mac. (The email made it
> across just perfectly, btw -- 150 M zipped.) I have no particular
> reason to use it as a mailreader, but I see it can do news too -- how
> is it compared to other newsreaders?

My favorite newsreader is Outlook Express. Thunderbird is the closest
thing to it I've tried, and can be made to work almost identically with
a handful of extensions.

Of course, making the above admission automatically gives me 12 geek
demerits.

--
Mark Warner
lose .inhibitions when replying

Charlie M. 1958

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Mark Warner wrote:
> Ted L. wrote:

>
> My favorite newsreader is Outlook Express. Thunderbird is the closest
> thing to it I've tried, and can be made to work almost identically with
> a handful of extensions.
>
> Of course, making the above admission automatically gives me 12 geek
> demerits.
>

Demerits my XXX! They may stone you to death with linux-laden hard drives.

F.H.

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Charlie M. 1958 wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>
>
> Demerits my XXX! They may stone you to death with linux-laden hard drives.

*That* would be ironic. Not that he doesn't deserve it on general
principals.

Chronocidal Charlie

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

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Ted L. wrote:
> Hey all you geeks -- how is Thunderbird as a newsreader? I won't go into
> all the details why, but I wanted to move several years of archived mail
> from three different mailsystems from a PC to my Mac and it looked like
> Thunderbird turned out to be the easiest route, so I now have it installed
> on both my PC and Mac. (The email made it across just perfectly, btw -- 150
> M zipped.) I have no particular reason to use it as a mailreader, but I see
> it can do news too -- how is it compared to other newsreaders?
>
> --
> Ted L.
>
> Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.
>
>

Not going to try to compare Ted. I use it regularly due to it being able
to handle OpenPGP with no fuss as far as encryption by way of the
enigmail extension both on the Linux and Windows version and I assume
the Mac version will also if there is OpenPGP for the Mac.

Couple of annoying things I find about it is the editor has a tendency
to mal-format on occasion and put an indent on a line where there is not
an indent planned or supposed to be. ;-)

It also seems to have problems in the newsrc and data department
keeping track of read/unread messages. It seems to use what I understand
as the common "I have/you have" protocol sync with the server and every
once in a while it will start turning up and showing as unread, messages
from a week or so past that have already been marked read and the only
way I've found to straighten it out is to just delete the newsrc etc. or
un-subscribe for the particular group and start all over with a clean
slate. I had thought at first it was the news server I was using, but at
present I'm using two different unrelated servers and it is doing the
same thing on both of them on two different machines and several
different OS platforms.

I haven't delved into Seamonkey too deeply other than finding it showing
up recently quite often as the default Internet Application Suite in
several of the newer more compact Linux distributions. I see it is also
available for the Mac platform. Something you might look at.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

We are almost back summertime on this end of IH-35 today. ;-)

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Chronocidal Charlie

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

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Charlie M. 1958 wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>
>
> Demerits my XXX! They may stone you to death with linux-laden hard drives.

Damn right. I was cleaning out a junk bin yesterday and found four old
Linux Laden 5 to 10 Gig cast off hard drives. Just wondering what the
hell to do with them. Limber up my throwing arm by gawd. How far is it
as the disk flies from Temple to Blomington?

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Ted L.

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

"Chronocidal Charlie" <clewis4@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
Thanks for the info and comments.
I wonder if when the Apple folks decided to build OS X on top of a unix base
they were aware of how much opensource stuff would be easily adaptable to it
just because of that?

> We are almost back summertime on this end of IH-35 today. ;-)
>

We're headed for the deepfreeze over the weekend on this end -- lows below
zero, highs in the single digits.

--
Ted L.

Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.

Tara

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

"Mark Warner" <mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com> wrote in
news:51s747F1kp610U1@mid.individual.net:

> My favorite newsreader is Outlook Express.

Wait....WHAT?

> Of course, making the above admission automatically gives me 12 geek
> demerits.

More.

Tara

Mark Warner

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Tara wrote:
> "Mark Warner" wrote
>
> Wait....WHAT?
>
>
> More.

Not to mention the shit I take in the geek/Linux groups.

--
Mark Warner
SimplyMEPIS_32
Registered Linux User #415318
....lose .inhibitions when replying

Handover Phist

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

On 2007-01-26, Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Tara wrote:
>
> Not to mention the shit I take in the geek/Linux groups.

Dude. I mean.... Dude. OE?!?

--
.... but hey, this is Linux, isn't it meant to do infinite loops in 5
seconds?
-- Jonathan Oxer in the apt-cacher ChangeLog

http://www.websterscafe.com

God Almighty

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

"sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:0r5uh.154231$rv4.140884@edtnps90:

>
> Well, your dildo obviously works fine for you, too, Grace. Most women,
> though, prefer the pork sword.
>
>
I'll see you in hell for that remark Sharx ! Although I did laugh my XXX
off.

Mark Warner

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Handover Phist wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>
> Dude. I mean.... Dude. OE?!?

....or the Linux geeks themselves.

--
Mark Warner
lose .inhibitions when replying

sharx35

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

"God Almighty" <bigdaddy@heaven.com> wrote in message
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> "sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:0r5uh.154231$rv4.140884@edtnps90:
>
> I'll see you in hell for that remark Sharx ! Although I did laugh my XXX
> off.
>

Glad I made SOMEONE happy. Nothing wrong with dildo's, though. Grace doesn't
realize, though, that her room mate used the same dildo anally and put it
back into Grace's bedside table, WITHOUT washing it.

Tommy

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

"Mark Warner" <> My favorite newsreader is Outlook Express. Thunderbird
is the closest
> thing to it I've tried, and can be made to work almost identically
> with
> a handful of extensions.
>
> Of course, making the above admission automatically gives me 12 geek
> demerits.
>
> --
> Mark Warner
> lose .inhibitions when replying

I've been preaching this to you guys for years - the only thing that
comes close is Outlook itself (for interoffice mail and adress.calendar
etc)

IE 7 is safe and whilst a bit eycandy catching, its the nicest eyecandy
I've seen/tasted in a while.

I downloaded a Vista lookalike thingy that makes all my XP Pro stuff
appear as if it is Vista.. Niiice, actually I quite liked Vista.
Bought the upgrades on 2 machines (you get the code when Vista
publishes)

OE rocks with OE Quotefix and the <<< stripper
Chees
Tommy

Chronocidal Charlie

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

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Tommy wrote:
>
> "Mark Warner" <> My favorite newsreader is Outlook Express. Thunderbird
> is the closest
>
> I've been preaching this to you guys for years
> IE 7 is safe and whilst a bit eycandy catching, its the nicest eyecandy
> I've seen/tasted in a while.
>
> I downloaded a Vista lookalike thingy that makes all my XP Pro stuff
> appear as if it is Vista.. Niiice, actually I quite liked Vista. Bought
> the upgrades on 2 machines (you get the code when Vista publishes)

Ohhhhhhhhhh! Wooowwwww! A Vista lookalike thang? Post us a screen shot
Ok Tommy. Please wiff sum sugar on it. I'd do it fer yew. Uhhuh! I would
too. I posted yew guys a buncha purty picktures of all my Vista Release
Candidates while I was in the testing cycle. Soon's I sees a home
release upgrade on a shelf, in my mailbox or gits the opportunity to
download a legal, I'll post ya pickture of mine. Yepper I shore will
even though I prolly ought to wait untill the service packs and upgrades
already in the works come out 'fore I spends any money on it. ;-)

Cummon Tommy don't be so stingy. Show us sum purty pictures. Taken them
screen shots of Vista is easy with thet snipper tool and wiff yer
expetice it ought be a breeze and yew could jest ftp it up on one yer
web sites fer us. -)

Please! Sir Tommykins. Would ya?

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Ted H

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:19:03 -0500,
Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Ted L. wrote:

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> My favorite newsreader is Outlook Express. Thunderbird is the
> closest thing to it I've tried, and can be made to work almost
> identically with a handful of extensions.
>
> Of course, making the above admission automatically gives me 12
> geek demerits.

I think you're being overly optimistic.

--
Ted H

Tommy

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
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> Tommy wrote:

> Cummon Tommy don't be so stingy. Show us sum purty pictures. Taken
> them screen shots of Vista is easy with thet snipper tool and wiff
> yer
> expetice it ought be a breeze and yew could jest ftp it up on one yer
> web sites fer us. -)
Please! Sir Tommykins. Would ya?
>
> CC
>

Charlie, your nastiness is beginning to show a bit obliquely, but
showing - I would never want your subjects to think I brought out the
worst in you :-)

It is called Gizmodo - not alone will I tell you about it, I'll
actually point you to the web page.

http://gizmodo.com/ ahh hahahaha that is a joke

Hee the real thing
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-...sary-182597.php

Jesus I thought you crowned kings of usenet knew everything

Try this for 'flyakite' which is the fake Mac

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/FlyakiteOSX.html

Warning - do a back up first. it isn't every machine that will
take this bugger :-))

Now my advice for anyone who wishes to take it. Not compulsory I
mean...

When you are busy rattling your jaws,,,, like an out of control ratchet
you will not be able to hear when someone else speaks...

We call these jaw-clappers ------------ "ratchet-mouth"
Not to be confused with nymphomaniacs which are called "ratchet-hips"
Or sluts who are called ratchet-drawers :-)))

Anyone ever met a real live nympho... yet???

Cheers
Tommy

Chronocidal Charlie

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

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Tommy wrote:
> Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
>
> Please! Sir Tommykins. Would ya?
>
> Charlie, your nastiness is beginning to show a bit obliquely, but
> showing - I would never want your subjects to think I brought out the
> worst in you :-)

My *nastiness* ???

Yew gotta be kidding. Tommy yew like having a helper in the kitchen when
when I cooking. Not that yew know a damn thing about cooking or that yer
taste is worth a damn, but yew alway an open mouth I kin shovel a spoon
full of what ever I working on to see if fit fer human consumption or if
I should toss it to the dogs. ;-)

> It is called Gizmodo - not alone will I tell you about it, I'll actually
> point you to the web page.

I don't wanna see no web page Tommy. I wanna see a screen shot of
Tommy's puter wiff it up and running. I know tommy wouldn't lie to me
with a screen shot, but yew know how sum them unscrupulous web sites is.
They doctor them screen shots up to make it look like sumpin will run to
git ya to down load it.

I knows yew like me Tommy. An honest scrupulous soul who would never
recommend someone install sunpin on a computer unless they had tried it
and found it to be solid. Yew wouldn't jest tell sumbuddy yew was using
sumpin to make yer self look like sum kind of guru would ya now? I think
not. Not the tommy I've been accustomed to all these years. Unuhhh! Not
the Tommy we have all come to love and respect.

> http://gizmodo.com/ ahh hahahaha that is a joke

Look to me like an incomplete URL. ;-)

> Hee the real thing
> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/the-...sary-182597.php

Is yew insinuuaten sum of us too poor to acquire the real thing or of
not having the expertise to use it if we are capable of acquiring it.

> Jesus I thought you crowned kings of usenet knew everything

If I did, why would I be seeking knowledge frum yew and asking yew to
show or teach me sumpin Sir Tommykins? And willing to allow yew to bask
and revel in in an "I guess I showed that shite XXX how the cow eats the
cabbage." smirk regularly? ;-)

> Try this for 'flyakite' which is the fake Mac
>
> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/FlyakiteOSX.html
>
> Warning - do a back up first. it isn't every machine that will take
> this bugger :-))

Really? Virt and I were just discussing it the other night and I posted
a picture of it running on my lil ole home made Linux boxen. Where is
that? Oh, here it is.

http://shorterlink.com/?T242VX

My screen shot of it running on my lil home made Linux boxen...

http://home.hot.rr.com/olgnuby/virt_osx.jpg

> Now my advice for anyone who wishes to take it. Not compulsory I mean...

Of course not, but yer gonn a give it ain't ya?

> When you are busy rattling your jaws,,,, like an out of control ratchet
> you will not be able to hear when someone else speaks...

That is evident by the above. ;-)

> We call these jaw-clappers ------------ "ratchet-mouth"
> Not to be confused with nymphomaniacs which are called "ratchet-hips"
> Or sluts who are called ratchet-drawers :-)))

I'm reminded of the profound words of one of Usenet's most....

Well, just one of Usenet's most...

Ah hell, here the quote. yew ought to know who coined it. ;-)

"When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope."

http://shorterlink.com/?B16D0P

> Anyone ever met a real live nympho... yet???

Yeah. Couple of em. ;-)

>
> Cheers
> Tommy

Jeers, Boooooo. Yew kin do more gooder Tommy. ;-)

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Tommy

2007-01-27, 9:39 pm

Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
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> Jeers, Boooooo. Yew kin do more gooder Tommy. ;-)

Not if I don;t want to Charlie.

Anyway, I give you the goods, what way you want to use them or not use
them is none of my business.

I have little time for , well lets just say that i give this particular
newsgroup a hell of a lot of my time, more than any other. That is in
itself a compliment for what,?? well for the fact that I got truly
sober and sobered up here, sometimes by walking myself into the shite.
As Ernie would say, its all good. Even making mistakes is allowed, and
by jove I made plenty of them.

I envy you how you can hold a resentful kind of a thought about what
someone posted some years ago - I can't do that Charlie, rightly or
wrongly, when I hang up my drawers tonight and go to bed, then tomorrow
starts life anew for me. New day, new cracks to make, new people to
piss off, all good though.

Could be a glitch I have in my brain. Could just be that I've found a
way to live not being responsible for what others say or do - there's
bits in the big book about that - about not having any control over
people places and things - not letting the sun go down on a bit of an
exchange of 'compliments'...

I tell the Duchess every night before I go to sleep that i love her.
Even in the throes of a dispute. heh heh,. she goes to bed at a
reasonable hour, but I can sleep happy in the thought that even if she
doesn't hear me, at least I've closed the book on a happy note this
day....

Know what though, if I forget to tell her that, it doesn;t make me
upset. Most nights I sleep after me 'penance' is done.. which is
apologising to those I hurt today (in my mind), and try to remember if
I owe anyone anything. Worse agin is that I lend things and money and
alwys forget who to..
Bu tthat few minutes gets me off to sleep. It just isn't good for me
to sleep on a full head.

Shit you know what, it makes me happy and XXXX the rest of them :-()

G'night Texas, and sleep well, sleep on your side, that way the farts
will be behind you :-))
Cheers
Tommy