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I should have clarified the GUI newsreaders. I'd be willing to bet a very small amount of money that around 2000 the majority of newsreaders in use by real huma
by giantrobot 3y ago
I should have clarified the GUI newsreaders. I'd be willing to bet a very small amount of money that around 2000 the majority of newsreaders in use by real humans (not spam bots) were Outlook Express and Netscape.
There were some good GUI newsreaders but Outlook Express was a shit show. I remember OE was what my ISP had NNTP documentation for and nothing else.
- jghn 3y agoYeah, I think Thunderbird was still pretty popular around then as well
- u801e 3y ago> Thunderbird was still pretty popular around then as well Thunderbird didn't come out until the early 2000s. The predecessors were Mozilla mail & news and Netscape Communicator. Seamonkey[1] is an offshoot of the former once Mozilla split mail and news into Firefox and Thunderbird. [1] https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
- u801e 3y ago> Outlook Express was a shit show The main problem OE had was the quote wrapping problem that other clients didn't. The other was that it defaulted to top posting IIRC.