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Bob henson
Flightless Bird
"johnbslocomb@invalid.com" <johnbslocomb@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:5757p55hbtjna0igf4eeaqfm4kggsqcvjt@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:49:27 -0500, Roy Smith <rasmith1959@live.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On 3/11/2010 6:19 PM, Parko wrote:
> >> Alias wrote:
> >>
> >>> he'll go away. Try it, you'll like it!
> >>
> >> [alt.windows7.general]
> >> !kill From "Frank <fb@amk.cmo>"
> >> !kill From "Alias <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido>"
> >>
> >> Seems to work for me.
> >>
> >> BTW alias, how about using a slighty better newsreader. Thunderbird
> >> 2.0.0.23 is a bit old isn't it?
> >
> >Probably because that's the latest version that's available in the
> >Ubuntu repositories, and they haven't made the latest version of
> >Thunderbird available yet.
>
> You an download the source code for version 3.03 from Mozilla at
> http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html
> compiling should be fairly painless.
>
Mozilla have their own repository which you can add to your list in
Ubuntu - that will download and auto-update the latest releases.
However, I wouldn't bother (under Ubuntu or Win7). I've used Thunderbird
since the early days, but I have just moved to Outlook because 3.0.3 is
such a flaky version - possibly the worst they ever released.
Regards,
Bob
> John
news:5757p55hbtjna0igf4eeaqfm4kggsqcvjt@4ax.com:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:49:27 -0500, Roy Smith <rasmith1959@live.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On 3/11/2010 6:19 PM, Parko wrote:
> >> Alias wrote:
> >>
> >>> he'll go away. Try it, you'll like it!
> >>
> >> [alt.windows7.general]
> >> !kill From "Frank <fb@amk.cmo>"
> >> !kill From "Alias <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido>"
> >>
> >> Seems to work for me.
> >>
> >> BTW alias, how about using a slighty better newsreader. Thunderbird
> >> 2.0.0.23 is a bit old isn't it?
> >
> >Probably because that's the latest version that's available in the
> >Ubuntu repositories, and they haven't made the latest version of
> >Thunderbird available yet.
>
> You an download the source code for version 3.03 from Mozilla at
> http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/all.html
> compiling should be fairly painless.
>
Mozilla have their own repository which you can add to your list in
Ubuntu - that will download and auto-update the latest releases.
However, I wouldn't bother (under Ubuntu or Win7). I've used Thunderbird
since the early days, but I have just moved to Outlook because 3.0.3 is
such a flaky version - possibly the worst they ever released.
Regards,
Bob
> John