On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:51:07 +1100, Alan Erskine
wrote:

I use Thunderbird (from Firefox) - it's great compared to OE; hasn't
crashed yet, whereas OE crashed almost daily. Other than that,
Thunderbird reads groups just as well as OE.

I would not regard that as an endorsement. Just about anything reads
groups better than OE.

All the complaints about multi-part messages, yenc, and all other
modern practices come from people who think OE is a news reader.