Re: Thunderbird- comments

de John Corliss 05/28/2006 09:51

ms wrote:
> I have been using the generic family since Netscape 3.1 days, through
> Roundabout/Phoenix/Pagasus (IIRC), that became Mozilla Thunderbird.
>
> Thunderbird has worked fine for me for several years. But several months
> ago, it started showing multiple headers for each post in a newsgroup. This
> same problem happened in W98SE, then on a different machine in W2K. Same
> problem with 3 versions of Thunderbird. Virus scans and malware scans show
> nothing.
>
> Recently, with help from Mike Dee and wwald, I did some steps to try to
> correct this problem. This included uninstall, then manually cleaning out
> every entry in W2K, then using RegSeeker to clean it out of the registry.
>
> Reboot, then a clean new install of TB 1.5. The first day was fine. With no
> changes on my hard drive, no reboot, the next day, TB had the problem
> again. So it developed the problem by itself.
>
> TB has a very nice GUI and newsgroup display IMO, like the old Netscape.
>
> But I've come to the conclusion that Thunderbird is not reliable, which for
> a program is for me a heavy comment to make.
>
> Advice on this?

Mike,
I don't have any problems whatsoever with Thunderbird. Sounds to me
like your ISP might be screwing up.

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