Posted by Sanukk on 01/04/08 15:37

David Nebenzahl wrote:

>> 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:

Doh! You are indeed correct.

> Tbird is a pretty damn good email *and* news client,

It's a nice e-mail client, I now use it for that myself for all my mail. It
is ONLY a damn good news client though if you compare it to M$ LookOut, I
have tried a few times to use it for news, but it's just not man enough for
the job.

> with good filtering (so I'm told; I never use it; don't like to look at Usenet through
> killfile-colored glasses).

I'm afraid you were told wrong then. The mail filtering is a PITA if you
collect mail from several different boxes, but for news, I'm told you
/still/ can't apply a global filter to ALL groups.

> I wonder how it stacks up against Agent,
> which, I'm also told, can actually filter out the MI5 shit.

As can 40tude, which goes back to what I was saying about apps specificly
designed for a task Vs apps with some other stuff bolted on.

-S

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