Re: Thunderbird- comments

de ms 05/28/2006 11:03

On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:51:26 -0700, John Corliss wrote:

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> From: John Corliss <jcorliss@fake.invalid>
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> Subject: Re: Thunderbird- comments
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 12:51:26 -0700
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> 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.

John, individual.net has been very reliable, and Xnews and 40tudeDialog
seem to work fine in individual.net.

My ISP, Copper.net, has been rock-solid.

And, of course, TB worked for years for me just fine.

Mike Sa