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Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird

From Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com>
Organization Pico Systems
Date 2017-05-22 23:14 -0500
Subject Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
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rickman wrote:

> 
> Have you tried SeaMonkey?  I don't know if T-bird will import settings
> from SeaMonkey, do you?  I also don't know if it will work any better
> than it did before.  I've put off switching for sometime.  T-bird has
> been a PITA for months because it has delays for not apparent reason.
> 
This is a known problem.  Thunderbird does sorts on the messages in memory, 
and with large newsgroups, that can overflow and cause thrashing to disk.
For that reason, I switched to knode for newsgroups.  I still use 
Thunderbird for email, it works fine for that.

Jon

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SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 15:53 -0400
  Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-22 17:53 -0700
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-05-22 18:42 -0700
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-05-22 18:56 -0700
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 23:19 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2017-05-22 23:14 -0500
        Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 00:17 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-05-23 14:15 -0500
  Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 09:01 -0400
    Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 10:37 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 11:54 -0400
        Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 14:47 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Bert Hickman <bert-hickman@comcast.net> - 2017-07-14 15:25 -0500
            Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2017-07-14 21:34 +0100
            Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 16:51 -0400
          Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-14 16:25 -0400
      Re: SeaMonkey vs. Thunderbird Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2017-07-14 22:58 +0000

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