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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop
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Date: 28 Jun 2025 18:36:42 GMT
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 01:10:59 -0700, T wrote:

> Take a look at betterbird.eu.  It is a fork of Thunderbird with a bunch
> of bug fixes and feature requests that Thunderbird refused to fix or
> implement.  The author of Betterbird was one of the original Thunderbird
> developers that left because he could not get them to fix things.

From the timestamps I looked at it in September 2023 and saw no advantage. 
At one time Thunderbird had some annoying formatting issues with 
newsgroups so I switched to Pan. I have slrn on the Fedora box but seldom 
use it. I liked KNode but that appears to be dead.

The thing with features and fixes is if nothing is broken the way you use 
an application and the features are not something you care about there's 
no compelling reason to switch.