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Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the mail-call dept.

KingDaveRa writes "Mozilla.org has quietly released Thunderbird 1.0 RC1. 1.0 RC1 includes lots of bug fixes and improvements for features like saved search folders, the RSS reader, mail migration, and message grouping. The default themes have both been updated with new and improved artwork as well."

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  1. Re:Popularity by skids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The geek fanbase for thunderbird is smaller, so it gets less free publicity.

    You can't really live without a graphical web browser (well, at least without impairing access to a lot of stuff), but the same isn't true of email. There are a number af very good text-mode mail readers, and most people I know prefer something like PINE, and really dread the day when you can't live without a graphical email reader.

    So far we've done a fair job of beating back the perpetually looming encroachment of non-plain-text email. (There's even an ASCII ribbon campaign :-)

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    Someone had to do it.
  2. Re:Why Mail and News? by znark · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I don't understand why people want a browser that has a POP and NEWS client built in? If I want to use POP I use my POP client (not outhouse). If I want to use NNTP I use a NEWS client.

    E-mail and news (and offline dial-up BBS messaging of the old days) are all sides of the same coin, communication-wise:

    • You have paragraphs of text.
    • You have quoting.
    • You have signatures.
    • You need to have a message editor.
    • You usually have a need to archive important messages into folders of your own choosing.
    • Most often you would like to keep a record of what you have yourself written.
    • You need some search facilities.
    • There must be a way to see a list of new messages, and an option to thread them into coherent discussions.

    A well-written news message is the same as a well-written e-mail message. The line between the two further blurs when you subscribe to mailing lists. Why use (and learn) two different interfaces and programs for handling what is essentially the same form of communication?

    -- znark