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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the
 greatest PC software available
Date: 9 May 2024 04:26:28 GMT
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On 09 May 2024 01:17:53 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've just abandoned Betterbird and Thunderbird for
> Usenet since I am convinced that a bug in the software is responsible
> for the Usenet problems I've been having of late. Good old Pan works
> fine with Blocknews, but everything else seems to have trouble
> negotiating a connection. I've decided to just use a web app for my
> e-mail (which gives me a more direct access to how the server will
> handle my e-mail anyway), and Pan for Usenet rather than bundle both
> services in one app.

I use Thunderbird for email and it does a good job but it had problems 
with Usenet so I switched to Pan.  I use individual.net for news so 
Thunderbird struggled with more than Blocknews.