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Lew wrote:
Fortunately I am blessed with Thunderbird, which displays all targeted
newgroups in its To: list

Twisted wrote:

I've had occasion to use Thunderbird in the past, and I seem to recall
the message pane just showing basically the same stuff GG does:
Subject:, From:, Date:, and body, with the newsgroup you're currently
in in the window title bar far above. I seem to recall there was a +

I have no idea what GG shows. Thunderbird shows "Subject", "From", "Date" and "Newsgroups" in the viewing pane, just above the message itself.

or something to click to view the full headers -- which then covered

I am not viewing full headers.

the whole pane with a grey slab of header info, in which select/copy
was broken, and which could not be scrolled.

I have no idea what that's about. I can select or copy out of any of that stuff with no difficulty.

No fewer hoops to jump through there, then, unless there's been a
major change in Thunderbird's UI in a recent version or something.

I don't know the history of Thunderbird. I am using version 2.0.0.5.

This is just the default view; I simply enabled the "Message Pane" so I don't have to open each message individually. If I do open an individual message, it shows the exact same information, again by default.

As I say, as I am blessed with seeing the full list of targeted newsgroups without any additional effort on my part, I am happy to let people know if messages are cross-posted, given that GG seems so much more unfriendly.

--
Lew
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