Re: Good newsreaders

Twisted wrote:
On Aug 22, 10:12 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Just for the sake of testing I just ran Thunderbird and viewed some
usenet posts through a read-only public usenet server. I see Subject:,
From:, and Date:, but not Newsgroups: without full headers. The about

There is a little "expand" plus-sign there that shows the Newsgroups: as well.

Still without full headers.

thing says version 1.0.7 (20050923) -- I'm pretty sure what you read
as 2.0.0.5 is the year in the build number. (Strange that it hasn't
apparently been updated for two years -- but it claims to be up to
date, and I'm sure I have the new version notification option turned
on.)

Not correct. I am running version 2.0.0.5 (20070719).

I don't know why you're "pretty sure" that I read something different; I told you what the facts are. (The periods in the version numbers are a clue, too.)

Like you, I used the "about" feature to glean the facts.

I can also clarify the selection thing. When I expand the headers I
can select, but only inside of a single line. It won't make multi-line
selections, which makes the feature rather useless for e.g. reporting
spam, where full headers are often requested, or even the full raw
message text including body. Dunno why, given that they can find it
given only the message-ID if it's still on their news spool and can
probably find it on Google Groups with just the message-ID also, and
certainly with the full headers, and thus get a copy with full headers
and body text.

If you need full headers, use the Thunderbird "View source" feature (Ctrl-U). It's a rare enough need that it doesn't do that except on request, but as you point out, headers are invaluable for spam reports and the like.

--
Lew
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