Random Bytes...by Ross Rader

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Wednesday, June 4

[09:25AM EDT] For the first time ever, my home, work and laptop mail clients are perfectly synchronized right down to the last icon, mail rule and email address.

Very cool.

Hat's off to open architecture. C | T (4) | #

[12:09AM EDT] I downloaded and installed Firebird and Thunderbird today.

Excellent software. Lightweight, useful and on-target as far as utility expectations were required.

I'm most interested in Thunderbird because of the generally dismal state of mail clients. I think I may have stumbled on a keeper. Not only does the filtering do what I want it to do, but its easy to add new filters to the rule-set. Further, the filter file is stored as plain-text and gives me the option of replicating it to all of the boxes that I use. The only thing missing is the capability to specify a remote URI where Thunderbird could just sync the ruleset from.

Firebird is great - it hearkens back to the good old days when a browser as a browser and IE still looked like Mosaic.

All in all, the Mozilla project is moving things in the right direction. C | T (6) | #

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