| JohnM 2005-06-23, 12:25 pm |
| John P Bengi wrote:
quote:
> I have noticed a few things about this.
> 1) I tried Agent for a month or so and it feels like running a MSDos
> programme, primitive and non-intuitive. I am not willing to pay for this
> functionality. OE is free without hacking.
>
> 2) The people that seem to always have problems with threading or posting
> readability are almost always Agent users. For posting binaries it is a much
> better machine, I am sure.
>
> 3) I have never had a virus scanner installed on my system in the 20 odd
> years I have been using MS op-systems. I have used a virus scanner the odd
> time but never required a full time scanner and the targetabilty is only
> because the results could be seen with such a popular browser. Once Agent
> becames more popular it will become a target also.
>
> 4) no browser I have ever heard of or seen support bottom posting. They all
> separate the p[osted text from the posted header. Threading browsers have
> made the top down posting style obsolete in the 80s. Who ever puts their
> attachments of previous posts before their text. Do you do this in an email?
> The previous posts are all in the thread and available to anybody wanted to
> review the previous posts. The arguments for bottom posting are all moot.
>
> Other than that, thanx for your polite information.
Microsoft stuff is pretty functional, and it's basically alright once
you get it configured, but the fact remains that it's the stuff that's
most often assaulted, it's often buggy and MS is darn slow at dealing
with problems. Consider XP and the 'service packs', strange way to do
things..
Try Mozilla's Thunderbird, it's what I use. I really don't know of
anything bad to say about it, it works and it works well. The Mozilla
folks seem determined to resolve issues quickly, I feel that they're
doing a much better job of it than MS.
Don't get me wrong, MS did a great service for the people by putting
Windows out, they helped to make the internet what it is just by
offering a fairly simple and working OS that we non computer-geeks can
use. MS set the standard that others are now exceeding and I can see
little reason for not using that which exceeds. Give it a try, you might
like it. Mozilla Firefox is a very good browser too, try 'em both.
John
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