[OT] Mozilla Thunderbird

[Walter Bright]

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.