Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 12/30/05 22:56

Jose wrote:

>> there is much better free software out there. Netscape (up to 7.2),
>> Mozilla, and Thunderbird are a few of them, others will be suggested
>> here.
>
> Just to be clear, by Netscape I do not mean the web browser, but the
> Email/newsgroups program that comes bundled with it as a suite. Note
> that starting with 8.0 Netscape no longer has this, and is a web
> browser only, so you would need the earlier version, or a different
> Email/newsgroup program, as suggested above.

Netscape 7.x is quite a distance behind the current Mozilla engines. I
would recommend (if you need the suite) the latest Mozilla or - I've
heard - the new Seamonkey suite, or the separate Firefox and Thunderbird
companions.

Personally, I'd recommend Firefox and Thunderbird, both versions 1.5.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

(though I like 40tude Dialog for Usenet)

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-bts
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