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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 23/02/2026 4:16 pm, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > 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.)   
   >   
   Netscape Navigator was just a Browser but then it incorporated a   
   Mail/News agent when, at about Ver 3.0, it became Netscape Communicator.   
      
   That then became Mozilla Suite .... which then became Firefox &   
   Thunderbird ..... or SeaMonkey Suite.   
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   Daniel70   
      
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