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Dialog Newsreader 2.0.3.1 (Beta 25) Available in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

From the home page: "40tude Dialog is a feature loaded, multi-server, multi-threaded Windows newsreader with Unicode character support. It supports multiple servers and identities, has filtering/scoring support, integrated email functionality and binary support including support for multiparts." Home page: http://www.40tude.com/dialog/ Release history: http://www.40tude.com/dialog/history.htm Screenshots: http://www.40tude.com/dialog/screenshot.htm htt

Reply to AOL Quietly Posts Version 8.0 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

According to their Q2-2002 earnings report they have 26.5 million members. It's not clear if that is just US members or if it includes their international divisions. http://www.aoltimewarner.com/investors/quarterly_earnings/2002_2q/transcripts/pace.adp

Reply to AOL Quietly Posts Version 8.0 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

AOL is the Buick/Oldsmobile of ISP's. It's very good at what it does for a great number of people. Most people simply want to share some email or pic's of their kids and surf a little content they find interesting. (Usually news or shopping) And they want to do it in a simple, slick package. That's AOL. I was an original subscriber (yes, back when they were using the GEOS (sp?) GUI) and it met my needs for many years. I bailed for Prodigy (that was truely awful) and then SprintNet

Reply to Poll Result: So what the heck is a blog? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I know you were just giving a representative sample, but you left off what I consider to be the grand-daddy of the blog sites: http://www.jerrypournelle.com. Yes, it's the famous Chaos Manor live (so-to-speak) and its been that way since June 1998!

Reply to SysMetrix, the new Library section. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This is great! It doesn't seem to consume any more resources than Coolbeans system info and beatnik (combined) and provides more info.

Reply to Next version of Netscape Launched! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I grabbed this and installed it on my desktop right away. Very nice and with a few conveniences that aren't in the mozilla build. (e.g. a button to open a new, empty tab so you don't have to hit the menu or the keyboard) One irritation is that you can't filter out AIM in the custom install. I didn't want AIM, but I got AIM.... alas, at least its easy to turn off. Other than that, I like it. I'm still using Mozilla 1.1 as my main browser on my laptop, but on the desktop it will probably b

Reply to MacOS X vs. Windows XP in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well, I stand corrected on the login issue. I would posit however, that other OS's could also be suceptible to similar spoofing, it's just that no one has spent the time to implement it. I stand by my take on windowing comparision: the windowing differences are application issues, not an OS issue. (I must admit, I was more than a little frustrated when I couldn't get Word back into MDI mode, as that was the way I preferred to work) BTW: Kudos on updating the article.

Reply to MacOS X vs. Windows XP in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

That review was pretty dissappointing. He mixes OS and Application behavior to draw OS conclusions, doesn't understand some basic functions/features of XP (e.g. the context menu size command), has an especially deficient understanding of network security (We ctrl-alt-delete to logon because of boot viruses?!?! I've heard stranger things, but this one is a stretch) Apple biased or not, if you're going make comparisons compare what you know. For genl OSX info I suppose it was a useful ar