Posted by David Nebenzahl on 01/04/08 02:10

On 1/3/2008 4:52 PM Sanukk spake thus:

> But in all seriousness stand-alone apps that are designed to do a specific
> task will always perform better at that task than an app designed for
> another task with some extra stuff bolted on, eg e-mail clients that 'do a
> bit of' newsgroups too, such as M$ LookOut and Firefox.

I think you meant to type "Thunderbird" there, and I disagree: Tbird is
a pretty damn good email *and* news client, with good filtering (so I'm
told; I never use it; don't like to look at Usenet through
killfile-colored glasses). I wonder how it stacks up against Agent,
which, I'm also told, can actually filter out the MI5 shit.

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