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Re: bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ?

From Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ?
Date 2021-08-05 18:50 +0200
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On 05.08.21 15:28, Marco Möller wrote:
> Hello! Do you have bad experience using Thunderbird as an IRC client for 
> IRC in the OFTC network? In the past I used HexChat, now running KDE 
> Plasma I am considering Konversation to be an option, but as I anyway 
> use Thunderbird for email, maybe I simply use Thunderbird also for IRC?
> Thanks for sharing your experience with Thunderbird for IRC! Marco.

Answering to myself after giving it a short try on #debian at OFTC:
I quickly found out that Thunderbird as an IRC client does not allow to 
configure it sufficiently to the wanted/needed details. GUI and and 
Login options miss to much in comparison to Konversation or HexChat.

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bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-08-05 15:30 +0200
  Re: bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2021-08-05 17:10 +0200
  Re: bad experience with Thunderbird for IRC (OFTC) ? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-08-05 18:50 +0200

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