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From: Toby Newman 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007  7:00:01 +0000
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On 2007-02-27, Chris  wrote:
> Only one thing is holding me back from moving to Ubuntu - and that is 
> that I want to keep using my email client, Turnpike.
> I've never found anything better in the twelve years I've been using 
> Turnpike
> and it won't run under WINE because it's a Windows namespace shell 
> extension - i.e. an extension of Windows Explorer.
>

I, too, was a huge fan of Turnpike. It came bundled with my Demon
internet back in the modem days. I've tried a lot of the newsreaders and
been disappointed with all of them except slrn. slrn, set up correctly,
matches Turnpike in ease of use. It is very different, however.

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