On 16 Apr 2005 at 9:58, Roger Wilkerson wrote:

> At 12:45 PM 4/16/2005 -0400 Bernie Cosell wrote:
> >On 16 Apr 2005 at 9:16, Roger Wilkerson wrote:
> >
> >> At 11:26 AM 4/16/2005 -0400 Wayne Johnson wrote:
> >> >Are you one of many users of Agent waiting for it to use multiple servers
> > ...etc such as I ?  You shouldn't have too terribly long a wait then as
> > ... it is beta testing now.
> >
> >> No blog support? 
> >
> >Why would there be?  Unless I'm missing something, blogs have *NOTHING* 
> >to do with either news [Agent's real strong point] or email [which Agent 
> >sort-of-handles].  Different protocol, different formatting, different 
> >everything.  I see no synergy whatsoever.
> 
> Then I take it that you have not looked at thunderbird.
 
Actually, I have...

> ..What I really like about thunderbird is that it is an email client,
 ... news reader and blog manager/reader, etc. 

I think you're misspeaking [which is partly why I'm confused].  Do you 
really mean "blog" or do you mean "RSS feed"?  [doesn't matter, of 
course, because I don't think Agent will have an RSS aggregator in any 
event, but at least I won't be so confused].

I think it is a matter of preferences and style  There are some folk who 
REALLY like "all in one" applications.  And so really like having a 
browser/email/news/RSS/word-processor/spreadsheet/database/etc combined 
application, the more multi-functions [and so the fewer separate apps 
they have to run] the better....

I've never done that: I use separate browser, email client, news client 
and RSS aggregator.  I find the various channels different enough that 
*for*me* I don't see any advantage in using a multi-function app when I 
can use separate apps that do the *exact* job I want very-well.

Note that I do RSS feeds also, but I use an explicit aggregator to do so, 
rather than expecting some other app to handle it.  [and since I use 
Agent *solely* for news, I mostly barely notice its other-than-news 
features (and indeed, wouldn't have even thought to ask if they'd bundled 
an RSS aggregator into it).

  /Bernie\

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