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|    J. P. Gilliver to Mark Lloyd    |
|    Re: Outlook and news    |
|    23 Feb 26 05:16:26    |
      XPost: alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.msdos.batch.nt       From: G6JPG@255soft.uk              On 2026/2/22 19:12:35, Mark Lloyd wrote:       > On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:01:34 +0000, Peter Johnson wrote:       >       > [snip]       >       >> Outlook Express had news access. It wasn't that good, although I       >> couldn't tell you why at this distance. I used it for a few weeks before       >> I discovered Agent.       >       > Some people had a problem when you're replying and it would start with the       > cursor at the top, leading to top-posting. That one never bothered me,       > since I knew to click before typing anything.              Some even suggested that was to encourage snipping/interposting, rather       than not doing any snipping and adding all of your response at the       bottom, which is (almost) as bad as top-posting.              This was rather countered, though, by it also putting the .sig, if you       had one, at the top.              OE-Quotefix mostly fixed it, though.       >       > There was also a problem with multi-part binaries, although I don't       > remember what.              Ditto (the not remembering part).       >       > I stopped using OE (and IE) around the time that Firefox was first called       > Firefox (version .8).       >       What was it called before that - Netscape plus or something? (I used to       use the Netscape Communicator suite - i. e. as well as a browser, it did       email or news [or both, I don't remember]. Quite good, IIRR.)       --       J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf              Never rely on somebody else for your happiness.       - Bette Davis, quoted by Celia Imrie, RT 2014/3/12-18              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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