Re: Thunderbird- comments

de Lou 05/29/2006 03:47

ms wrote:

> On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:50:51 GMT, Lou@its.invalid wrote:
>
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> > From: Lou@its.invalid
> > Organization: Why bother?
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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 Sa
> >
> > Post in the TB support group on news.mozilla.com server for real support on
> > this.
> >
> > Lou
>
> Lou, I got no support there. That was where I started, even reposted, they
> never bothered to answer. And my problem was a very basic one to use TB.
> The Firefox forum is much better.
>
> Mike Sa

Interesting. I think I know some folks that hang out there.

Lou