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Aniruddha Pendse said:
Which is the best Email Client which can be used on xp ?
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Just use the "Outlook Express " that comes with XP. It is a great
email program. Email. Not newsgroups.

You'll need to find a freeware spell checker to work with it. I can't
tell you the name of the one I have, or even if it is the only one.
My copy just says "spell" on the exe file that installed it. My
friend uploaded it to me.

If I read the info correctly, I see that you are using Outlook Express
right now, right??

If you are going to access newsgroups besides just a few newsgroups,
I recommend you get something else designed for newsgroups as it's 1st
function.

lf you are at high speed and plan on downloading Usenet music files
and movie files, "News Rover" is way (WAY!!) ahead of others I have
seen (I've not seen them all). News Rover = free one month trial &
the trial version is not crippled - it is the regular program).

If you are just going to access text based newsgroups and maybe JPG
pictures, then others will do. Also, for the JPG files (pictures),
you'll want something that can decode yEnc internally.

I use the "Agent" newsgroup reader for my text based newsgroups and
one JPG picture newsgroup. I like it better for the text based
newsgroups. But since I went to high speed cable a little over a
month ago, I found out about and quickly bought "News Rover" for
multimedia newsgroups.. It is just that much better. I now own two
newsgroup readers.

The "Agent" people do offer a free-to-use version called "Free Agent'.
But it is crippled - no internal yEnc support for JPG pics, and no
spell checker, and a few other things.

Big Mac
 
What do you want it to do?
I have Outlook and Outlook Express and Mozilla... have used
them all but find OE easiest for me. I don't need the
features of Outlook and Mozilla is fun, but just an
experiment on my part.


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Which is the best Email Client which can be used on xp ?Try Thunderbird
Its for free, it has a great SPAM filter and it don't use the Internet
Explorer to show html Emails (so you are sure from getting viruses in
the prewiev of an Email)

You can download here:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
 
I would have to say Outlook Express. I may be biased though.

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Aniruddha Pendse said:
Which is the best Email Client which can be used on xp ?
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There's no answer to a question like this. All you get is
opinions, and because different people have different opinions,
you get no consensus. Which is best for you depends on how you
work, and what features are important to *you*. Since many of
them are free or have trial versions, my recommendation is to try
as many as you can and choose whichever works best for *you*.

That said, if you want an opinion, *my* favorite is Outlook 2003.
 
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Big Mac said:
Just use the "Outlook Express " that comes with XP. It is a great
email program. Email. Not newsgroups.
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And just to emphasize my point to Aniruddha, *my* preference is
to use Outlook Express for newsgroups, but not for E-mail. I
don't say that to tell you that you're wrong, but just to point
out that we all have different needs as well as different likes
and dislikes. Aniruddha should not choose something just because
it's your preference or because it's my preference.

You'll need to find a freeware spell checker to work with it.
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How do you know? Many people have Microsoft Offic or one of its
components installed, and he may be one of them. If so, he
already has a spell checker that works with it.
 
Ken Blake said:
And just to emphasize my point to Aniruddha, *my* preference is
to use Outlook Express for newsgroups, but not for E-mail. I
don't say that to tell you that you're wrong, but just to point
out that we all have different needs as well as different likes
and dislikes. Aniruddha should not choose something just because
it's your preference or because it's my preference.
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Of course - I was informing him with my experience.


Ken Blake said:
How do you know? Many people have Microsoft Offic or one of its
components installed, and he may be one of them. If so, he
already has a spell checker that works with it.
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I don't know what "many people" is - "many" suggests a majority.
Personally, I do not know anyone who has Microsoft Office, which has
to be purchased separately, unless it is installed on some new
computers for free (not on my new one).

As far as everything - the spell checker, retrieving and viewing
pictures, and retrieving & viewing/listening to multimedia files, of
course I was talking in the context of what the majority of Usenet
users are going to encounter and need.

I believe I said something like: "for a couple of text based
newsgroups, and maybe for looking at a few picture-based newsgroups,
OE should be fine". Then I went on to talk about multimedia
newsgroups - if you have high speed access and are d-loading
multimedia attachments - MP3 music files and movie clips or even
entire movies, then you should get "News Rover".

Then I believe I said if you are going to be viewing pictures
(attached JPG files) then any other news reader should do. *** But I
emphasized that the ability to un-encode the picture to view was
needed, and I mentioned yEnc - all attached files when uploaded are
formatted in a certain way, and you need to be able to un-format the
file to view it.. The standard encoding form was UUENCODE. I suspect
that OE can handle UUECODED attached files. But recently, like since
I have been computing again less than a year ago, more and more,
people are encoding attached files with YENC, a more efficient way
than UUENCODE. In fact, in music and movies newsgroups, YENC seems to
be the norm. UUENCODE is dead there. And in picture-based
newsgroups, some attached JPG files are still encoded the old UUENCODE
way, and some are now, and more and more, using the better YENC.

Since I never tried OE for newsgroups, I was unfamiliar with OE as a
newsgroup reader. When I went to broadband with a new ISP server, I
started using OE for email -- And like I said it is a great email
reader/writer so far for me.

However for newsgroups with OE - I did look in the help docs. I
looked everywhere I think, trying the search method, looking for key
words like "uuEncode", "yEnc", etc. Nothing. And here's all it said
about viewing attached files (and it doesn't specify - pictures, movie
clips, or listening to music files):
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To view a file attachment:
In the preview pane, click the paper clip icon in the message header,
and then click the file name. -or- At the top of the message window,
double-click the file attachment icon in the message header.
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Alright, this is great. OE can view a file attachment. Pretty vague
though - And as you can see, absolutely nothing is mentioned about
uuEncode or yEnc. It doesn't say "view a picture, or "watch a movie
clip", or "liten to a music file" either.

So then, I cannot say OE cannot do all of this stuff I mention -
maybe OE can do all of this?? Are all of these abilities built into
OE? Since nothing is mentioned, I have to suspect OE is greatly
lacking in most of these abilities. Heck - even Agent, my first
newsgroup reader I purchased, and a good one that was just updated,
cannot handle RAR & PAR2 formating internally - you can retrieve
these files, but then you have to use 3rd party software externally to
handle this stuff - it is a hassle. New Rover does all of this
internally with one click. So, If Agent, a program devoted to Usenet
newsgroups reading, doesn't handle this stuff internally, then I
would bet everything I own that OE cannot handle this stuff. Agent
does hande the newer yEnc though - but not Free Agent, it's crippled
freeware cousin.

But really - OE should mention in the help files something, anything
in a bit more detail, about it's attached files viewing capabilities,
so people who actually halfway understand what is needed in Usenet
nowadays will know.

Big Mac
 
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Big Mac said:
I don't know what "many people" is - "many" suggests a majority.
Personally, I do not know anyone who has Microsoft Office, which has
to be purchased separately, unless it is installed on some new
computers for free (not on my new one).
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"Many" doesn't suggest a majority to me. It means "a lot," as
opposed to "most."

Be that as it may, it may even be true that it *is* most. I
personally know many people who use it (it's installed on both
machines here). It does come pre-installed on many machines and
many others buy it. You say you don't know anyone who has it, but
I hardly know anyone who doesn't have it.

As far as everything - the spell checker, retrieving and viewing
pictures, and retrieving & viewing/listening to multimedia files, of
course I was talking in the context of what the majority of Usenet
users are going to encounter and need.
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I don't want to get into a fight over this, but you didn't say
anything about what "the majority of Usenet users are going to
encounter and need"; you made an unequivocal statement, and I
pointed out that it was wrong. You said "You'll need to find a
freeware spell checker to work with it." That is true for some
people but not others, and there was no way you could know from
his message whether or not it was true for him.

I believe I said something like: "for a couple of text based
newsgroups, and maybe for looking at a few picture-based newsgroups,
OE should be fine". Then I went on to talk about multimedia
newsgroups - if you have high speed access and are d-loading
multimedia attachments - MP3 music files and movie clips or even
entire movies, then you should get "News Rover".
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Outlook Express's newsreading strengths are in text-based
newsgroups. If you're interested in binary files (I'm not), I
agree that Outlook Express is probably not a good choice for you.
Whether you "should" get News Rover, I'm not so sure. It's only
one of several choices; many others are good with binary files,
and which you should get, as is usual in these matters, is a
matter of taste.
 
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