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Re: "tin" doesn't have 1% of the features Mozilla Thunderbird has.

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, news.software.readers, alt.free.newsservers
Subject Re: "tin" doesn't have 1% of the features Mozilla Thunderbird has.
Date 2016-01-13 09:54 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
Message-ID <fhaduio.jfeia8@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <Jeff-Relf.Me@Jan.12{10.25P.Seattle.2016}> <fhf3afw8.afw@rooftop.invalid> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Jan.12{11.23P.Seattle.2016}> <fhgu490q.ef43a@rooftop.invalid> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Jan.13{1.14A.Seattle.2016}>

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> wrote:
> You (MrOwl) replied (to me):
>> > CraigsList lets me post a few, select HTML tags.
>> > Many forums allow a limited set of tags, like that.
>> > Usenet is no different.
>> > 
>> > Your newsreader, tin, is run by static minds,
>> > people whose growth ended 30 years ago.
>> 
>> My newsreader is a newsreader.  
>> That thing you're using... who knows what that is.
> 
> "tin" doesn't have 1% of the features Mozilla Thunderbird has.
> You can write JavaScript extensions for Thunderbird, for one thing,
> and you can write CSS rules for both the GUI and the posts/emails.


IOW, shit that doesn't belong on usenet.


> 
> My newsreader, Jeff-Relf.Me/X.ZIP, is Visual C++ that I wrote myself;


No doubt that is why it is broken.


> nothing could be more custom, I assure you.
> 

I think I saw your source code years ago.  Isn't yours the one with the
obfuscated, macro-filled spaghetti code?  If that's it, then I'm not
surprised that it is unable to make a proper post.


> You're welcome to dump my posts, of course,
> as I dump yours (when you're not replying to me).


"Dumping" your posts would be redundant.

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