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Tell me how Thunderbird is broken. Tell me what OS I'm using, then go ahead and tell me how it's broken. You're using Windows/20050923 and Thunderbird 1.07 which, for some strange reason, keeps posting HTML to newsgroups. You also appear utterly incapable of using the delete key. Oh no, I forgot, you are too lazy (your words). Cheers, Luke

Errm, no. You're running a broken newsreader on a broken ap[ology for an OS. Tell me how Thunderbird is broken. Tell me what OS I'm using, then go ahead and tell me how it's broken. Well your headers include: User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Not sure which version of Windows but some would say that all are broken. Mozilla Thunderbird is not a broken newsreader because it is not even a newsreader - it is a Mail User Agent (MUA) which can be used to post to Usenet - like a toaster can be used to dry your hair. Ian

I'm not talking about you in your car. I'm talking about ordinary people, in ordinary listening environments. And believe me, in most people's living rooms, they /don't/ need a $1000+ hifi to tell the difference between iTunes' crummy MP3's and its AAC's. Anybody should be able to tell the difference even straight from the iPod with the stock earbuds. Are you asserting that Apple destroys mp3 encoded material on playback or that they encode it badly? I ask this, because mp3 at 128 kbits/sec plays badly on iTunes, Finder and VLC on this Mac, however and wherever it was encoded. Certainly worse in most cases than the 128kbits/sec AAC encoded stuff from the music store, bad and all as that is. That leads me to believe that all 128 kbits/sec mp3 is suitable only for playing in a loud rattly car while you are paying more attention to your driving than the music as, of course, you should be. Even though my ears as old as the rest of me, I reckon that 160 Kbit/sec AAC is the minimum bitrate that can't be distinguished from the CD original on modestly priced living room equipment, and that equates to at least 192 Kbit/sec mps and I don't care whose encoder put it there.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. On usenet. Lovely. One nice thing about MT NewsWatcher is that it strips out all but the plain text portion of multipart MIME messages. Some of us still use text-_base_d newsreaders.  I love nn - it's fast, menu-driven, text-only and available via ssh to my server. I've tried some GUI readers and none of them match the simplicity, ease of use and speed I can get from nn. YMMV.  -Stephen