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OSNews: Review: Pine Vs Mozilla ThunderBird

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 1, 2004

“I had been an avid user of Pine for almost five years.
Recently, I decided to move to a greener posture. I dumped my good
old Pine and settled with a graphical client. Although, sometime I
miss the simple, fast, text based interface, the new relationship
is shaping up to be an exciting one. We have our bad times, but
overall I am happy with the switch.

“Email has been an integral part of my daily life. I will admit
my addiction for checking emails. From the latest spam to enlarge
my certain organ to the email from an old friend–I just love
getting emails. On a serious note, a big chunk of my work depends
on reading and responding to emails. I receive about 200 emails
(not counting spam) on average a day. A good, trusty email client
in these days of information overload is necessary…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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