Re: Outlook and news

On 23/02/2026 4:16 pm, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> 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.)
> 
Netscape Navigator was just a Browser but then it incorporated a 
Mail/News agent when, at about Ver 3.0, it became Netscape Communicator.

That then became Mozilla Suite .... which then became Firefox & 
Thunderbird ..... or SeaMonkey Suite.
-- 
Daniel70