Re: usenet's usefulness

From	Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.privacy
Subject	Re: usenet's usefulness
Date	2026-05-09 15:58 -0700
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yeti wrote:
> Isn't ThunderBird the current #1 in statistics about newsreaders?
> Doesn't that prove that everyone and all their pets have easy access to
> news?  Maybe TB's developers can be nudged to add the features you miss?

Tb has a LOT of deficiencies when it comes to news; in fact the dev/s 
consider it to be a text/html MAIL user agent, as opposed to a 'proper' 
news agent.

It is VERY poor in the filtering department, lacking scoring, wildcards, 
regex, etc.  And, it is MY belief that the 'devs' of Tb do NOT even 
'participate' in ng/s, nor care anything about it.

They can barely manage their own bugs, which hang around forever sometimes.

That being said, Tb is MY current news agent; mainly because I like its 
rewrap feature and I am able to deal w/ its filtering deficiencies in my 
own way.

-- 
Mike Easter

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