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   Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:22:31 +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 , Bernard Peek    
    writes   
   >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.   
      
   OK. Now I've tried Claws mail. It's got an almost identical interface to    
   that of TBird and that alone is enough for me to write it off as a    
   non-starter. It seems everyone is copying each other's mistakes (IMHO, I    
   hasten to add.).   
      
      
      
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