Justin Johansson wrote:
Email clients and newsgroup readers are different things. So while I can understand that one would want to have control of their email message database (as in ease of backup/import/export etc), when it comes to newsgroup messages the repository is maintained by the newsgroup server itself (and of course these repositories are generally replicated ad infinitum on the web). Accordingly it seems that comments like "That killed it for me" really only apply to email clients rather than newsgroup readers/clients.
Except I use one for both, and when I can't back up my database, I lose all the marks saying which postings were read and which weren't.
