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I used to use Netscape, it worked okay. I don't think it was able to seperate E-mail messages automatically into different folders, or thread e-mail messages, but they may have added that since then. The major thing that I like about pine is that it doesn't require a graphical OS. I can telnet or ssh into my Unix PC (both at home and a work) from anywhere in the world, and have all of my e-mail at my fingertips. With POP or IMAP I would need to set up each PC that I use individually to grab the mail. Then, I might not have everything that I had saved previously, or all of my replies, etc all on-line in each location. Many people don't find this to be a requirement -- but I do. I've also used Forte Agent for news reading, which is also being discussed here. It's a good newsreader, and vastly superior than Netscape for downloading binaries from newsgroups. The newsreader called PAN used to be my favorite GUI newsreader... but lately it's been so buggy that I can't stand it. I don't think PAN is available for Windows, though. It's even more powerful than Agent, IMHO, but also buggier :) At any rate, I prefer E-mail to newsgroups, so I'm sticking with Pine and reading my midrange.com stuff there. (Note to List: Please don't reply to this telling me that I'm wrong about my choices. They are personal preferences, if you don't agree, don't do it that way.) On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Jim Langston wrote: > > Myself, I use Netscape 4.7 to read newsgroups. And it's free. > > From: Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> > > pine >
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