"Jeff" wrote in message
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N. Miller wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:54:09 -0500, Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
wrote:

"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:47:57 -0700, Bruce Hagen wrote:

Vista uses Windows Mail. Not available on any other OS. You can get
Windows
Live Mail desktop, (beta) if you want. Some like it, but I'm not
impressed
at all.

It is slightly better than MS Outlook Express. But almost *anything*
recent
is at least slightly better than MS Outlook Express. MSOE is a
Model T on the information super highway.

I can't think of anything about it that I find better than OE
besides the improved message store.

Its handling of signature separators is an improvement. Not by much;
it still doesn't properly strip signatures in reply. But it does add
a proper sig-sep, unlikd MSOE.

It can be configured to place the cursor for bottom posting.

It seems a tad more robust against message store corruption.

MSOE6 is not even close to the improvement over MSOE4 that the
Netscape 6.x message client is over the Netscape 4 message client.
And the Netscape 6.x message client has be left in the dust by
Mozilla Thunderbird

MSOE6 is still just a Model T amidst Saturns, and Cadillacs on the
information superhighway.

Why is Thunderbird so much better? Just trying to learn.


My experience so far is that WLMD would be my preference if they could get
it to work as well as OE does for both POP mail and Newsgroups, however when
it comes down to the time taken handling newsgroups Thunderbird seems to
leave them both way behind, I can't think why this should be so for OE but
for WLMD it is likely to be something to do with the post ratings or some
such irrelevant nonsense.

Why they took out the "Mark all as read" function I cannot imagine,
obviously that's the sort of thing you'd expect from someone who's "Read all
about it" but never actually used it for reading newsgroups...

Charlie

The junk mail filtering is not good (To say the least)

"Charlie Tame" wrote in message
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My experience so far is that WLMD would be my preference if they could get
it to work as well as OE does for both POP mail and Newsgroups, however
when it comes down to the time taken handling newsgroups Thunderbird seems
to leave them both way behind, I can't think why this should be so for OE
but for WLMD it is likely to be something to do with the post ratings or
some such irrelevant nonsense.

Why they took out the "Mark all as read" function I cannot imagine,
obviously that's the sort of thing you'd expect from someone who's "Read
all about it" but never actually used it for reading newsgroups...

Charlie

The junk mail filtering is not good (To say the least)

I hate to defend WLMD, but the junk mail filter does learn and gets pretty
good after a few weeks.

They also took out toolbar customization, which is still there in WinMail.



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