On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:13:13 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:

Thanks, Denis. I'm looking at Opera now and will give it a try. Unfortunately it shares a number of issues with Thunderbird, among which out-of-sync display:

http://erdani.com/opera-out-of-sync.jpg

The message displayed in the message pane is unrelated to the one clicked in the list above. I'm not talking milliseconds here; I'm talking a dozen seconds. The headers were loading, and the out-of-sync period could be arbitrarily long. To me that's a crass error.

Give a little break here, you are loading almost 500,000 headers :) I use opera for newsgroups, and day-to-day use is pretty good. Yes, the first time you set it up, if you ask it to download all headers (which I did because I want to be able to search on old articles), then it takes a bit. In other words, when you are downloading a day's or even a week's worth of messages, the sync problem is not noticable.

One thing it does do which I think could be better is as it downloads messages, it threads them individually. This probably explains why it takes so long to download all the headers. I suppose it does this so you can read messages as others are downloading, but obviously this is not possible ;)

I chose opera over thunderbird because, well, I can't remember why, but I think it had something to do with being able to download all the messages. Or maybe it threads them better. One command to memorize is the 'g' key, which marks the current message as read and goes to the next unread message.

-Steve

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