mail-list vs news, was Re: [plug] Looks like the LCA DVD is out.

[Russ Powers]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:39 pm, Joel Johnson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Devenish" <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au>
>
> > Interesting...how would you intend to read NNTP articles? Are you
> > implying that OE *will* display threads for news articles but *not*
> > for mail messages?!
>
> You got it! It is a MS product after all - the old "Do as we say, not as we
> do" when it comes to standards and consistency.

I'm no fan of OE (particularly the imap support) but it will thread mail. MS 
just gives it a different name:

"Group messages by Conversation"

>
> OE seperates it's e-mail functionality from it's NNTP functionality but
> presents it within the same program. The display of folders is the same as
> Thunderbird's (seperate trees for each NNTP account and one for the mail)
> but the display of headers is handled differently. Probably uses the same
> code for displaying the message bodies though (maybe).
>
> If you think OE is bad then you'll love MS's preferred "mail client" - it
> can't even do NNTP! And they get people to actually buy it!
>
> Joel
>
>
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Regards,
Russ