"Justin Johansson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader. > > My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of > distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011. > > For one thing, and perhaps this is a newsgroup server problem, but I doubt > it, my Thunderbird client shows a number of D NG topics as being unread > though the folder tree item for d.D shows all items as read. > > Aside from that issue, my experience with Thunderbird is that it is not > particularly innovative in drawing my attention to the high-traffic topics > apart from telling me that one-or-more responses are unread (as opposed to > popular topics for example). > > Overall I think Thunderbird is a bit lame as a newsreader for this day and > age, and, though it owes me nothing and I paid nothing for it, I do wonder > what others think of their NG experience using Mozilla Thunderbird. >
FWIW: I tried Thunderbird breifly a few years ago. It seemed to get the job done, but there were a number of little annoyances that left me going back to Outlook Express. Let's see if I can remember some of them...(and again, like I said, "little annoyances", so obviously these aren't super-major issues or anything): - When using "view messages in plain-text" (which I always use), it still converts *this* into bold (and removes the asterisks), /this/ into italic (and removes the slashes), and _this_ into underline (and removes the underscores). This really, really bugged me, but unfortunately there didn't seem to be a way to turn it off - despite the fact that it was supposedly "plain-text" mode. - Many UI elements seemed to be rather big-n-chunky. Almost like a GTK app, although not quite as bad. - There was a lot of invisi-text on my light-on-dark system. I seem to recall that it *was* possible to fix this, but it required manually hacking some obscure configuration files. - I seem to have a vague recollection that the UI became unresponsive while it was downloading emails, but I may very well be completely wrong about that. I think there was *something* weird about when it downloaded emails... I think there were some other little annoyances along similar lines, but I can't remember what they were. Granted, Outlook Express certainly has it's little annoyances too (a few people's NG messages show up as blank messages with the actual text in a text-file attachment, auto-quoting when replying doesn't always happen, and what I'm assuming are long GC collection cycles, and a few other things), but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat less annoying than Thunderbird's.
