On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:52:12 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
> wrote:

>
>"notbob" > wrote
>>
>> Thanks for the info, Ed. I've noticed this new phenom in more than a
>> few posts, lately, and suspected all you've explained. This is
>> typical of Microsoft, the arrogant attempt to generate their own
>> standards and bucking long established one's. Fortunately, OE makes
>> such a crappy email/news readers in the first place, even hardcore
>> Windows users dump it in favor of a better Choices. Agent seems to be
>> the favorite alternative, though not the only one. Do us all a favor
>> and do likewise.
>>
>> http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html
>>
>> I've been playing with Xpn, which I like better than 40tude. There
>> might be some OE config resources on the above website.
>>
>>
>> nb
>
>MS did one good thing in recent operating systems. System Restore. I did
>that last night and dumped the new Windows Live mail and reverted back to
>the older 2010 version. It allows the use of the > to mark threads. I
>tried Agent and did not care for it, but I may try some others.

Agent works very well but has a long learning curve and is overweight
with useless gimmicks.