Re: Outlook and news

On 2026/2/22 19:12:35, Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:01:34 +0000, Peter Johnson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Outlook Express had news access. It wasn't that good, although I
>> couldn't tell you why at this distance. I used it for a few weeks before
>> I discovered Agent.
> 
> Some people had a problem when you're replying and it would start with the 
> cursor at the top, leading to top-posting. That one never bothered me, 
> since I knew to click before typing anything.

Some even suggested that was to encourage snipping/interposting, rather
than not doing any snipping and adding all of your response at the
bottom, which is (almost) as bad as top-posting.

This was rather countered, though, by it also putting the .sig, if you
had one, at the top.

OE-Quotefix mostly fixed it, though.
> 
> There was also a problem with multi-part binaries, although I don't 
> remember what.

Ditto (the not remembering part).
> 
> I stopped using OE (and IE) around the time that Firefox was first called 
> Firefox (version .8).
> 
What was it called before that - Netscape plus or something? (I used to
use the Netscape Communicator suite - i. e. as well as a browser, it did
email or news [or both, I don't remember]. Quite good, IIRR.)
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