From: "John Beamish" 

Opera works as Geo wants.

But ... I prefer the highlighting (as I recall it) from Forte's Agent.  It
had one bold colour for new-not-read; a different bold colour for
new-and-read; and black for previously-read.

Opera has bold-blue for new-not-read; bold-black for
new-and-clicked-on-to-see-in-preview-window and non-bold-black for read.
The problem is that when you move from a message to the next message the
bold-black changes to non-bold-black if you use the space bar (or the
"G" key -- go to next message).

I used Agent for a while but it was somewhat of a pain to manage multiple
newsgroups on multiple servers.  My ISP has removed part of that problem
(they no longer support usenet newsgroups).

IIRC, Agent would also move from the last message in one newsgroup to the
first unread message in the next newsgroup automatically.  Opera, otoh,
requires you to manually select the next newsgroup to read and then
manually navigate to the first message where you want to start reading.


On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:58:56 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

> Actually I was wrong about Thunderbird.  Its behavior isn't exactly what
> George wants (i.e., the OE behavior using the spacebar to advance a
> preview window to its end and then the next spacebar causes OE to go to
> the next message).  Spacebar in Thunderbird does advance the previewed
> message just like in OE, but when you get to the bottom of the previewed
> message another hit on spacebar does not advance to the next message.
> You have to hit down arrow to get to the next message.
>
> Gary

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