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Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:55:38 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: News Client

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Ben Archer wrote:

> WRT MR2I, I heartily recommend it, but not for
> news yet. For news I use PMI news. I'd like my browsing to be
> anonymous--my reason for not using Mozilla or NS for mail and news.

To which Mark responded:

> Why can't you be anonymous for news in Mozilla?

I haven't tried Mozilla for news yet (in fact, haven't been back on a newsgroup in a
very long time), but I well recall that NS 4.61 would not allow you to munge the
sender's address. Therefore, you could not even do the old "Nospam" type of alteration
/ addition to your address, if you wanted to reply to something. That was
unacceptable, in my view. The only alternative was to access the newsgroup from a
secondary, spamtrap account you didn't care about, which had an Alias as your user
name. I don't yet know what sort of improvements Mozilla may have made in this regard.

It is still my longer-range intention to switch to a "real" email program -- most likely
either MR2 or Polarbar -- but I wanted to have the News access via the same program.
MR2 supposedly offers this, not sure about Polarbar. I think they may both have
cross-platform potential: Polarbar because it is Java-based, MR2 because I think it now
also has a Win-32 version. (There is a limit on how many programs I want to have to
learn or to manage, in order to cover the same task . . . . )

Jordan

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