on Sun, 9 Mar 2008
11:14:49 -0700
> > Do any of you use Thunderbird for mail/newsgroups,
> > or do you prefer to use SeaMonkey instead? It seems
> > to me from reading posts to scoug-help that Ray
> > likes SeaMonkey instead of Firefox/Thunderbird, and
> > Steve Wendt likes SeaMonkey as well, but what about
> > the rest of you?
>
> I've always preferred the all-in-one suite approach
> myself, from NS 4 on, so my present solution is SM.
> Outside of some nice extensions that seem to be for FF
> *only*, I don't really find much reason to divvy up
> the browser vs. mail & news functions. (Nevertheless,
> since RC4 installs FF by default -- and it seems
> likely that eCS 2.0 GA won't depart from this -- I am
> taking that as the opportunity to test drive FF. At
> the moment, that is limited to the older TP laptop.)
I don't much care for the all-in-one programs. I prefer to get the best single
use programs (IMNSHO) available. So of the Mozzila programs I only use FF.
> Didn't Steven recently say he preferred the SM UI to
> the one in FF ? If so, I'd have to say I agree.
>
> I have never even looked at TB, nor do I find a
> compelling reason to do so. In regard to news, I am
> open to trying something else . . . but then I don't
> really do much newsgroup stuff. If I did, I think I
> would like to find something more closely akin to
> Forte Agent (on the Dark Side), which we may not have
> on our side of the fence.
I use ProNews/2 as my news reader.
I use Polarbar for as my email client.
--
Robert Blair
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