On 31/10/2014 00:32, Jim Kewley wrote:
In message , Martin Brown
writes
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Only Demon news is being withdrawn. The demonites live on.
It shows there is still someone there with a sense of humour.


I never used Demon but my ISP in the Isle of Man provided what was/is
(?) the best email and news programme ever - Demon's Turnpike. Sadly
support and updates for Turnpike stopped some years ago now but I still
soldier on, using it on Windows XP via a Virtual Machine.

I've tried all the other email and news programmes but can't seem to
wean myself off Turnpike. Anybody else still clinging to Turnpike ?

Which feature(s) of Turnpike do you rely on. I have found that Mozilla
Thunderbird can be made to work close enough to TP to be OK for me.

The only thing I really miss are full regex matching for routing and
killfiles. On the plus side you can test new rules easily in TB but you
have to work within the limitations of what it provides.

There was a thread in d.service or s.ip.turnpike that described which
addons to use to get a close approximation to TP behaviour.

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Regards,
Martin Brown