K
Kentype
Guess I'll keep Thunderbird a little longer. Am finally learning how to
use it. Yes, I'm a slow learner.
use it. Yes, I'm a slow learner.
C
chrisv
Kentype said:
Thanks for sharing.
G
Gene E. Bloch
If this is meant to be part of your earlier thread, it would have been
helpful if you had posted it in that thread - for instance, as a reply
to your original post.
Now it's just an orphan...
V
VanguardLH
Kentype said:
To keep your posts together under one thread, reply to a post in your
prior thread. You started a NEW thread here that has no context. In
Tbird, you need to click on whatever toolbar button is used to reply to
a newsgroup post rather than the New button that starts a new thread.
In time, you'll get the hang of it.
R
RustY ©
Tbird is not great with newsgroups. I started to use it a couple of
weeks ago after I got a new pc with win7 on it. For email I have always
used OE6. It did the job OK and was fine for occasional newsgroup
reading but it won't work with win7 so I needed to change.
Tbird took some setting up for me as I have multiple email accounts with
several suppliers and its 'automated set up' loused most of them up. To
get them to work took me hours of fun. It found my newsgroup accounts
OK and appeared fine at first but I soon found that it will not handle
multipart posts {even OE6 will combine and decode}. Also, Tbird does
not handle Yenc, which I find amazing for a 'modern' piece of software.
Thunderbird is OK for free but it can't be the best solution out there
so I'll keep looking.
C
Char Jackson
It sounds like you made a basic mistake. Thunderbird is positioned as
a newsreader for text groups. For multipart binaries you'll want
another tool, one dedicated to that kind of activity.
C
choro
WRONG!
This is a question to do with your ISP and its Usenet newsgroup support.
I can, through my ISP, subscribe to both text and binary newsgroups even
though my ISP will only post my text messages to any such newsgroups.
But using Thunderbird I can receive both text and binary postings on
Usenet newsgroups.
A
Alex Clayton
<sigh>
Really?
My ISP has a news feed that includes binary groups, or at least it did
last I checked. I don’t read any of them but if I tried I am sure I
would need a reader that would work with them would I not? I am just
playing with t-bird so don’t have any idea what it can or can’t do but
where you get the WRONG it’s the ISP from is a little beyond me.
C
Char Jackson
No, not wrong, and you don't have to shout.
No, it has absolutely nothing to do with the ISP.
Yes, I know, but Thunderbird doesn't purport to be good at working
with multipart binaries. Can you struggle through with it? Sure, but
that's what the OP was complaining about.
A
Allen
Did you miss "multipart"?
Allen
R
RustY ©
You are correct. Tbird is an OK basic text reader but useless with
pictures that are split over a few posts as it fails to combine and
decode them. And, as I mentioned, it can not handle yenc posts - now
that is a grave omission I would say. If you have to use a 'proper'
newsreader as well then Tbird becomes redundant.
X
XS11E
RustY © said:
I can't rate it as OK because it's lack of filtering makes it
suitable for only the most civil of newsgroups.
As a newsreader but it's a fairly decent email client.
C
Char Jackson
A quick Google seems to indicate that it (TB3) has fairly good
filtering capabilities. Aren't you finding that to be the case?
One of the links I reviewed:
<http://mozilla-xp.com/mozilla.support.thunderbird/Usenet-filtering-in-TB3>
X
XS11E
Char Jackson said:
That link discusses some of the many shortcomings of T'burp filtering.
T'burp 3 has raised the filtering from totally useless to almost
totally useless.
No newsreader w/o scoring capabilities can be classified as even
slightly usable IMHO.
N
Nil
I don't agree. Xnews's scoring is nice to have, but in practice I
mainly use it to completely kill stuff or to let stuff through the
filter. It's mostly all or nothing, and I could do without the
graduations in between if I had to.
I don't care for Thunderbird in general, but the filtering features in
version 3 are quite usable.