[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Vista in the news

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Well, no, but we couldn't consider using a text-based email manager as the 
only email we could be certain of reading would be that sent through 
filter-reflectors like this one.  I wasn't ever sure there were any still around as had I 
come across one in my searches I would have just put it in fire and forget.

My comment about email managers being Outlook clones applied to the newer 
ones that can display graphics if necessary.  But it might have been more 
accurate to be more specific and say they are all the same in the way that they 
handle or display folders and folder contents.  And it's possible that should be 
attributed to Windows Explorer rather than to Outlook, as it probably came out 
first.  What I mean, and I have looked at every one that I could get my hands 
on at least twice, is that although you can see the folder tree if you open it 
up, you can't see the contents of but one folder at a time because they are 
all two-pane systems.  The only available exceptions I know of are 
Compuserve/AOL, maybe even dating back in this regard to when they were DOS/text based.  I 
can't recall for certain.  Oh, and RegEdit, but you can't marry it to a mail 
manager.

In a message dated 4/2/2007 1:13:22 AM Central Standard Time, jeffv at op.net 
writes: 
> >Also, since you brought it up, all of the email clients that run under 
> Unix 
> >are Outlook clones.  
> 
> This is particularly crafty of you.  I played right into it.
> I said to myself that no one with a clue could tell me that Elm and Pine 
> are Outlook clones because they're text-based.  No one could possibly be 
> that intentionally naive - yet here you are.  This is how I figured you out.
> 

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