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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:15:08 +0000
From: Bernard Peek 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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In message <45E9FBF7.2BD67C00@yahoo.com>, CBFalconer 
 writes
>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.

The problem I have with TBird is that the way it displays thread 
structures is so poor that I find it unusable. I want a window that 
shows as much of the thread structure as possible with the minimum of 
detail. TP does mark crossposts as read when they are read in any group, 
and being a multi-user app it does so for each user independently. TP 
uses multiple document windows very effectively. I can set it up so that 
when I open a message it appears in a full-screen window.



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Bernard Peek
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