Prev:  “Roll Your Own”, Quoting.
Next: WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD
From: Double-A on 15 Dec 2009 13:42
On Dec 15, 7:32 am, _@Jeff_Relf.Seattle.inValid wrote:
> I'd like you ( Nightcrawler ) to:
> A. paraphrase and/or selectively quote.
> B. indent/label your quotes, so we know it's a quote.
> ---- or ----
> C. not quote at all, like Bert.
> ---- or ----
> D. top·post ( which you do, at times ).
>
> You rejected Windows Live Mail because it's "bloat·ware".
>
> Neither Mozilla ( ThunderBird ) nor MicroSoft ( Windows Live Mail )
> would let me add all the features I require;
> even if they did, it'd add dreaded "bloat".
>
> Instead, I wrote my own newsreader ( X.EXE/X.TXT, Visual C++ ),
> giving me EXACTLY what I want, no more no less.
> ( for the details, see my website "www.JeffRelf.F-M.FM" )
>
> That's the ideal solution, if you can handle it, "Roll Your Own".
>
> P.S.:
> Glorb (www.Glorb.COM/usenet.php) is better than GigaNews.
> Glorb's un·filtered server ( newsRead.Glorb.COM:80 ) is best, I say.
> ( The ":80" means "port 80" but you can use port 119 )


When I tried Thunderbird, it seemed do fill up its queues and stopped
working. Couldn't download anything new. I couldn't find any
commands for deleting entries or clearing the queues. Maybe a later
version would be more compatible.

Double-A

 | 
Pages: 1
Prev:  “Roll Your Own”, Quoting.
Next: WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD