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   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.)   
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