[OT] Mozilla Thunderbird

[Justin Johansson]

On 18/12/10 17:08, Walter Bright wrote:
> Justin Johansson wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Except I use one for both, and when I can't back up my database, I lose
> all the marks saying which postings were read and which weren't.

Oh, okay.  Fair enough.