"WaIIy" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:10:58 -0400, "Gary Warner"
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"Greg O" wrote in message
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That's what happens when you use one of these high performance
newsreaders!
Go old OE could care less what the header reads. It groups them because
it
is a response to the previous post. Change the header completely in
your
response and OE still sticks it where it belongs!

Just pulling your chain a bit. I have used a few different news
readers,
but
stick with OE. It is simple, and it does what I want.
Greg


Here. Here. People seem to bash Outlook Express quite a lot
but it's essentially free (comes with windows), does everything
I need, is easy to use, is easy to setup, starts up quickly, etc.

And you can call it an email program if you want but it's
got lots of tools for reading newsgroups that have NOTHING
to do with email. It's really both tools in one. And it
handles them both just fine.


Yes, and OE is the garbage disposal of e-mail clients.

It inhales every worm, trojan and virus that comes along.


Really? They all hit OE on my machine, but are crushed by either ZoneAlarm
(firewall), or McAfee Viruscan, two things which all machines should have,
regardless of the email/news clients being used.

I'm all for stringing up Bill Gates and dropping firecrackers into his
shorts, but the fact is that some MS software works quite well. The biggest
problem with OE and any other client is that too many users don't bother to
read the instructions. It can do much more than meets the eye of the lazy
user.