>>>What newsreader are you using? Me, I use Outlook Express, which bolds
>>>unread
>>>messages. Makes it easy.
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>> Yes, I am using the same execrable filth. I've been planning to upgrade to something decent for years, but there's thing pesky thing called time ...
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> I recommend you to try Thunderbird.  It takes a few minutes to set things up.
>

I tried Thunderbird a little while ago, and I liked the "underlining partially read threads" and I like the way it handles quotes, but there were some annoyances that drove me back to Outlook Express after a couple weeks:

- There's no (apperent) way to make it stop turning *word* into bold, /word/
into italic, and _word_ into underline. I like my plain text to be plain
text, thank you.
- The left pane insists on abbreviating "digitalmars.D" to "d.D", and
"digitalmars.D.bugs" to "d.D.bugs", etc. Even when there's plenty of room
for the full name.
- Almost every time I open a newsgroup, it chooses a random thread to
"expand all".
- I don't like Mark As Read and Mark Thread as Read being in a sub-menu of
the right-click menu.
- My email server redirects to a different name, so when I tried to send
mail encrypted, Thunderbird kept pestering me about it and didn't allow any
"always ok for that domain" option.
- Email Message Filters seem to be extremely broken.

"Nick Sabalausky" <z@a.a> wrote in message news:d0n26i$2das$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I tried Thunderbird a little while ago, and I liked the "underlining partially read threads" and I like the way it handles quotes, but there
were
> some annoyances that drove me back to Outlook Express after a couple
weeks:

I have a couple complaints with OE's newsreader, mainly it gets the unread messages count maddeningly wrong, but overall it's fine. It's infinitely more useful than web forum software like what slashdot uses.

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I tried Thunderbird a little while ago, and I liked the "underlining partially read threads" and I like the way it handles quotes, but there were some annoyances that drove me back to Outlook Express after a couple weeks:
> 
> - There's no (apperent) way to make it stop turning *word* into bold, /word/ into italic, and _word_ into underline. I like my plain text to be plain text, thank you.

One simple solution is to install the "Quote Colors" extension.
You might also tweak the pref.js directly.

> - The left pane insists on abbreviating "digitalmars.D" to "d.D", and "digitalmars.D.bugs" to "d.D.bugs", etc. Even when there's plenty of room for the full name.

True. However, I like this feature.

> - Almost every time I open a newsgroup, it chooses a random thread to "expand all".

It never occurred to me. Weird.

> - I don't like Mark As Read and Mark Thread as Read being in a sub-menu of the right-click menu.

"M" and "R" are the keyboard shortcuts for these two tasks respectively.

> - My email server redirects to a different name, so when I tried to send mail encrypted, Thunderbird kept pestering me about it and didn't allow any "always ok for that domain" option.

I can understand how annoying this is.

> - Email Message Filters seem to be extremely broken.

"extremely broken"? Is it an exaggeration?
I find email filters quite usable.  Maybe my filters are not complicated enough to trigger the bug you found.