"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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I haven't had a single problem with OE since I began using it several
years ago for email & news. I want to know what YOU have PERSONALLY
WITNESSED.


I also have been using it for mail and newsgroups for years with nary a
problem. I've tried Thunderbird and the "free Agent" a while back because
everyone told me how much better they were than OE. I didn't find that
to be the case at all and eventually dumped them and went back to OE.

Many claim that OE is subject to hacks and viruses. Maybe, but I've never
experienced it. I also find it very easy to use for both mail and
newsgroups. I don't use filters much, but when I do, it works fine. I
never see that M??? whatever poster anymore.

Sometimes I think that some of the complaints are simply because it's
Microsoft and it's cool to be anti-Microsoft anything.

Eisboch


Yeah...I agree. They may be whining because it's fashionable. And, my
experiences with other software was roughly as follows:

1) Agent: "Some years ago" - no tech support available. I couldn't even get
pre-purchase questions answered. My main question was whether it could
handle multiple e-mail accounts simultaneously. It couldn't.

2) Thunderbird: Had nothing like the "watch conversation" feature that works
so nicely with newsgroups in OE. I also had issues at the time with the open
sauce* programming community that destroyed certain excellent features in
other Mozilla products, like the bookmark search feature.

*sauce: slang for liquor. Open sauce, pretend to be a programmer, hurl
obscenities at anyone in a newsgroup who questions why you broke a feature
that had worked perfectly for years.