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>> Well, following my questions about Windows Live Mail 2011 last year, where
>> there were some decent responses, and one of the usual "It's MS, what do
>> you expect you idiot" responses, I procrastinated a while, then downloaded
>> 40tude Dialog. It was a little painful to get used to, but having just
>> plonked the Colonel and his chums, I'm really growing to like it. It's a
>> very powerful reader, and requires a little background reading to make the
>> most of it. Plonk rules aren't the simplest - but once mastered, they are
>> way better than the old MS OE/WM/WLM ones.
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>> I also love the way that it highlights common usenet acronyms, like LOL
>> etc, and shows the meaning as a tooltip. OK, so I know what LOL means, but
>> there have been others... BFI would be a great one for this group,
>> especially when dealing with seized nuts etc.
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>> Usenet is a happy and easy experience again! :)
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> Yes to all that. Also the single-key commands for Follow up and Reply etc.
Cool - I'd not realised that, but it makes things even simpler. Cheers. I just need to remember to press 'F', and not 'R'!
The database needs compacting every so often, after emptying items not
> wanted from Sent and so on; I do mine about once a month.
I'll look into that soon.
Only thing that does bug me a little, is having to double-click the post that I want to read. Not sure I see the point of that.