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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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