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   Charles Ellson  wrote in   
   news:h387eald9jgaslfkdhcm4kluutod9qf0pj@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:53:25 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>"Charles Ellson"  wrote in message   
   >>news:lp67eatdgs76kke582mb4bsic7ubsno1bh@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:42:31 -0500, "Mary"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>"S Viemeister"  wrote in message   
   >>>>news:ckgqtvFqoneU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>>> On 2/16/2015 11:57 PM, Mary wrote:   
   >>>>>> "S Viemeister"    
   >>>>>>> On 2/16/2015 7:51 PM, Peter Jason wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> It just goes to show how a lack of Trolls spells the death of a   
   >>>>>>>> ng.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Many posters have moved to FaceBook to avoid the trolls.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I still drop in here sometimes, but everybody has disappeared   
   >>>>>> trolls and   
   >>>>>> all. I don't care much for Facebook. I liked it here better, but   
   >>>>>> maybe I   
   >>>>>> will go to Facebook sometime.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> I liked it here, too, but...   
   >>>>> I've thought about starting an scs group on Facebook.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>It might be a good idea, but if it has a horrible editor as   
   >>>>Soupdragon says,   
   >>>>I don't know. You could try it and see how it works out I suppose. I   
   >>>>don't have a problem with posts from trolls on SCS. I put posters   
   >>>>whose posts I didn't want to see on my blocked list and most times   
   >>>>never see their posts.   
   >>>>Most mail/news readers block out posts you are not interested in.   
   >>>>I've used   
   >>>>Outlook express and I never see most of the posts from trolls or   
   >>>>others who   
   >>>>are semi-trolls :) I use Win XP for my mail and news, but for Win 7   
   >>>>and up you could use another mail/news reader such as Firefox or   
   >>>>others.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Firefox isn't an e-mail client/newsreader. Are you thinking of   
   >>> Thunderbird ?   
   >>   
   >>Yes, Charles. My mistake.   
   >>   
   > Forte Agent has a similar appearance but isn't free any more; I think   
   > one of the other free newsreaders isn't too different but I can't   
   > remember which one. One thing to watch for nowadays is that a   
   > newsreader/mailreader doesn't open attachments by default. Some of the   
   > older ones still available might not run on Windows 7 or newer.   
   > SeaMonkey is another newsreader associated (like Thunderbird) with   
   > Mozilla but also seems to be a browser.   
   >   
      
   I use XNews. It's old, but it works with every MS OS I've tried,   
   threads, good basic editor and has very good kill files.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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