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David
3-Jan-2006, 04:48 PM
Office 2000, Outlook's use of Outlook Express for news reading leaves some
things to be desired.

(I liked CompuServe's threaded, sort by most recent reply, and
alternatives...)

Anyone like something better than Outlook Express, I hope?!

(I have to co-exist within a company network. I'm hoping I can explore other
options without implications / ramifications on others here.

Thanks,

David

Mark Rutherford
3-Jan-2006, 06:49 PM
I use Thunderbird.

IMHO, *I* think is the best :)

I do not care for Outlook or its butchered half brother, Outlook express.

I like Thunderbird. it does all of what I need in a mail/news client.

There are others out there that I have heard about, there is some GTK+
one out there for windows that was a beta and I happened to try it out
but it was .... well bloated :)

The best bet for you is to try them all out and decide for yourself, too.

I note that a sizeable amount of the regular posters to these newsgroups
use Thunderbird as well.



David wrote:
> Office 2000, Outlook's use of Outlook Express for news reading leaves some
> things to be desired.
>
> (I liked CompuServe's threaded, sort by most recent reply, and
> alternatives...)
>
> Anyone like something better than Outlook Express, I hope?!
>
> (I have to co-exist within a company network. I'm hoping I can explore other
> options without implications / ramifications on others here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>

DavePorter
3-Jan-2006, 07:53 PM
Hi David,

What Mark said !

Dave Porter

Knut Sparhell
3-Jan-2006, 08:52 PM
David wrote:

> Anyone like something better than Outlook Express, I hope?!

Mozilla Thunderbird is a combined mail, news and feed-reader. It's
free. It's available in English and many other languages, for Windows,
Mac and some unix'es (including Linux). It's simple and clean, designed
to be loved by former Outlook Express users.

An advantage is that it's very configurable, and the default settings
should be ok for most new users, not annoying for others on the network.

It also has a lot og fine extensions available. Those may change the
behaviour or add new featuers. I have these:

- All newsgroups read (marks all mesages read in all newsgroups beloning
to the actual news account)

- SignatureSwitch

- Quote collapse (reduces qouted text to an expandable section)

- CompactFolder

- No new window on double click (removes an annoyance in current version)


This is much better handeled by Thunderbird (news reader) than OE:

* Qouted text, no matter what codig used (OE has trouble with "qouted
printable" encoding)

* Large local message store

* Standard compliance

* Qouting "Usenet style", but it also supports lazy "top posting" if you
must

* Searching for messages

* Filtering out unwanted threads or messages

* OE can't let you read feeds (blogs or news), using RSS/Atom. TB can.

* Lets you save copies of outgoing news messages elsewhere (any local
folder) than a common "Sendt Elements" for mail and news.


This is somewhat better with OE (news reader):

* OE is marking crossposted messages as read in every group they appear

* OE lets you expand just a subthread of a thread, in TB a complete
thread is either collapsed or expanded.

* OE lets you insert a singature in the editor, in TB it's only inserted
when you open the text editor

* OE lets you use a lookup list for newsgroups for crossposting. In TB
you have to write the name of "foreign" groups. Some regard this a good
thing to reduce misuses of crossposting.

------

I used OE since it was released/included and up to 2004. Then I
changed. It will import your mail folders from OE, if you like. It
may, or may not, be the standard mail and/or news reader on your system.
It makes itself reckognizable as an avaiable mail or news reader to
Windows. It works well in combination with any other mail readers or
any browser, and does *not* require Firefox or that you use TB for mail
as well. After instalation, if yiu donøt like it, just leave it unused
or uninistall it.

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

--
Knut Sparhell, Norway

David C. Moody
4-Jan-2006, 09:41 AM
I posted a similar question a while back and someone mentioned XanaNews
to me. Since then, that's all I've used and love it.

Check it out:

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d9xananews.htm

-David

David wrote:

> Office 2000, Outlook's use of Outlook Express for news reading leaves
> some things to be desired.
>
> (I liked CompuServe's threaded, sort by most recent reply, and
> alternatives...)
>
> Anyone like something better than Outlook Express, I hope?!
>
> (I have to co-exist within a company network. I'm hoping I can
> explore other options without implications / ramifications on others
> here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David



--

Marco
8-Jan-2006, 08:38 PM
I used to use Agent.

I still have the licence, but since we have the wasp service,
Thunderbird is more that adequate.

Cheers,
Marco




David wrote:
> Office 2000, Outlook's use of Outlook Express for news reading leaves some
> things to be desired.
>
> (I liked CompuServe's threaded, sort by most recent reply, and
> alternatives...)
>
> Anyone like something better than Outlook Express, I hope?!
>
> (I have to co-exist within a company network. I'm hoping I can explore other
> options without implications / ramifications on others here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>