Christine Dabney > wrote in
:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 01:12:04 -0500, Sqwertz
> > wrote:
>
>>Agent and Dialog simply have so many more features than
>>Outlook there's no reason they should suck worse than Outlook.
>
> I usually find out that people who compare Agent unfavorably
> to Outlook, haven't really learned how to run and configure
> Agent all that well. It does have a ton more features than
> Outlook, and one can configure it so that it does exactly what
> one wants.
>
> At least that is my experience with it. I have been using
> Agent since the 90s and have seen the different versions. It
> really simplifies the reading of newsgroups.
>
> Christine

"It really simplifies the reading of newsgroups."
Because it was made to be a News Reader. :-)
Outlook Express was made for e-mail.

It's the difference to a graphic artist between using MS Paint or
PhotoShop or Gimp or any real graphic editor.

Use the right tools to get the best results. :-)