Geoff Muldoon wrote:
An****@DeFaria.com says...
Whilst I am an absolute devotee of Thunderbird for mail, I strongly
prefer MicroPlanet (Super)Gravity for nntp.
Forgive me for being curious but what does MicroPlanet (Super)Gravity
give you that TB doesn't?
It's more a case of personal preferences. I prefer the way Gravity
handles killfiles, its binary decode previewer, and probably most
importantly its hotkey navigation.
That and the fact that I like to keep my apps independent for their
specific function, not a lover of "bundled" software.
Oh granted it usually is a matter of personal preference - I know. The
other arguments in favor you present are pretty typical - killfiles,
handling binarys. Hotkeys are a new one to me. I find TB's hotkeys just
fine for my tastes. As for binaries - there are much better ways to get
binaries than newsgroups, IMHO.
As for keeping apps independent, I agree with you that monolithic
programs are sometimes bad. Then again, I don't see NNTP as really that
much different than SMTP therefore I not bothered by the fact that I use
TB to do both. In fact I also use TB to do RSS too. One can easily just
view SMTP, NNTP and RSS as communications with others (though RSS is a
bit of stretch).
Anyways, all opinions I know. Thanks for explaining yours.
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