[OT] Mozilla Thunderbird

[Justin Johansson]

On 17/12/10 13:05, Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat less annoying than
>> Thunderbird's.
>
> OE cannot back up or transfer its message database. That killed it for me.

Email clients and newsgroup readers are different things. So while I can 
understand that one would want to have control of their email message 
database (as in ease of backup/import/export etc), when it comes to 
newsgroup messages the repository is maintained by the newsgroup server 
itself (and of course these repositories are generally replicated ad 
infinitum on the web).  Accordingly it seems that comments like "That 
killed it for me" really only apply to email clients rather than 
newsgroup readers/clients.