On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:07:04 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> sometimes i have a taste for goofballs. also, it makes it easier to
>> see when the criterion you've set up is catching people you didn't
>> intend to killfile.
>
> Just in case you're interested... finally got around to firing up a
> windoze VM today and installing 40tude on it (curiosity and all that).
> The default GUI looked a bit different from my other newsreaders (until
> I figured out how to change the layout <g>). However, I am happy to say
> that I don't think I'm missing out on any major filtering functionality
> that I don't already have in my current newsreaders; case of 6 of one
> and half a dozen of the other, as they say. And it's also free
> for 'home users', which is cool. However, it lacked a couple of
> other 'nice-to-haves' that I'd miss - probably very minor stuff to
> anybody else, but important to me, *personally*. Maybe if I messed
> around with it some more I'd figure out a way to 'switch them on' but
> why bother?
>
> So no, I'm now definitely not fussed about not being able to have 40tude
> as a regular newsreader.
>
> [And before anybody wants to know WTF "VM" means: it's an acronym
> for "Virtual Machine" (and if you dunno what that is - GIYF).]

as you like, of course. but my reply was to sf asking why you'd mark
someone read rather than killing them outright, which i think is an option
for many newsreaders.

your pal,
blake