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Bernard Peek wrote:
> Hadron  writes
>
.... snip ...
>>
>> Did you list the things specific to Turnpike? All I saw was that it
>> handled nntp and email. Well, thunderbird does that too doesnt it?
> 
> I did, and yes Thunderbird does both those things. I run Thunderbird on
> my Ubuntu workstation but I don't consider it good enough for everyday
> use. For instance the threading display for newsgroups is very similar
> to that in some earlier news clients, and I find it unusable. The

I don't think you investigated the various sorting and threading
options.  The big problem with TBird is that they have never
tackled the failure to mark cross-posts read when one has been
actually read.  This bug has been lying around for years.  I don't
like their handling of headers either.

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