On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote:
> [Gravity]
>> Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the editor
>> is UTTERLY!!!! unacceptable. How can you create a popup message saying
>> that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may have problems
>> reading the message without providing a solution?!! X-News gives a
>> reformat facility. Agent says nothing on the matter. :) You cannot paste
>> as quote and you cannot configure the editors color scheme. I can't
>> imagine how the editor can be like this and there is no facility (unless
>> it's hidden) to use an external editor. When I copy and paste text to
>> 'message cleaner' it's done in a buggy fashion as well (that's
>> unbelievable. I didn't know such a thing could happen).
> Oh, come on, this program is a winner as far as bugs are concerned.
> Too long lines is one of them. But there are plenty of others, and
> plenty of lacking features (like Base64 and Quoted Printable support
> for 8 bit characters, code pages converting). I'm still using it, but
> only because I'm yet too lazy to switch to XNews. But I will soon!
> XNews + Hamster :-)
I didn't give it enough of a chance to discover other problems. Upon
using it to post a couple messages, the decision was clear. If certain
basic things/issues are not properly addressed, I don't care about the
rest of the apps abilities. It's simple canned.
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