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Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the spam-clients dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 is now available for download on Mozilla's FTP server." Here is the press release announcing the release. Virtual folders and RSS integration, coupled with the recent hype surrounding Firefox, might give this sucker some serious momentum.

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  1. Aaaaarrrggghhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I visited the sight only 10 minutes before. It said release 1.0 and I took it to be 1.0 PR. Now the site is gonna be slashdotted ....

  2. Re:Any other choice? by oexeo · · Score: 1, Funny

    > what else *Open Source* e-mail clients can I choose in Windows?

    Pirated Outlook.

  3. In Other News by NardofDoom · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Thunderbird Bad for Advertisers"

    "My business has been cut ten fold by this communist software" say veteran spammer Ima A Shole. "I don't know how anyone expects to have free web sites if they don't let independent businessmen like me advertise porn and \/|@gr.r.r.a."

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    You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
  4. Huh? by sammyo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't there be a name change at a full dot release?

    Ba ding. :-) :-)

  5. Re:Any other choice? by Finuvir · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I don't want Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail&News and Mozilla Thunderbird, what else *Open Source* e-mail clients can I choose in Windows?

    Telnet

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  6. Re:Memory Footprint by Paleomacus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's that 'Express' in the title. It makes things go faster!

  7. Re:optimizing a mail client is pointless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    If it was a Pi calculator, or a game (in which a miniscule difference in per-frame loop time makes a huge difference in frame rate) I could see the point, but this is just silly
    Go tell that to Gentoo users.
  8. Re:Memory Footprint by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it's chunky, but being able to run the newest Thunderbird is worth the cost of you upgrading to a 486.

  9. Re:Are you simply too lazy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How should I know, try a Google search: should we trust google?

  10. Re:Release Notes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't forget next year we get to hear that Thunderbird 1.0 is one year old! It's the damn birthday stories that annoy me.

  11. Re:Why ADD a calendar?? by shellbeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    For some people, work /= meetings.

    work = work / meetings ???

    Thus the amount of work you do is inversely proportional to the number of meetings you have ... OK, I'll agree with that!