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Default The continuing hard drive worries.

In article , Bill
scribeth thus
In message sting.com,
Jabba writes

Turnpike is old. Demon have given up on it. Do you want to keep old
emails, the address book etc? Suggest you clean off your printer or
copy stuff to text files.

http://help.demon.net/announcements/...urnpike-email-
client/

There are free alternatives to Turnpike such as Thunderbird, which can
be used for mail and usenet. Many former Turnpike have transferred to
other software.




I'm not sure that I would encourage anyone to move from Turnpike. One of
its great advantages now is that because it's obsolescent, it doesn't
keep changing, unlike Thunderbird.
Here I run Thunderbird and Pan for some news, but all my main email and
news stays on Turnpike, simply because it works superbly, does exactly
what I want and has all the old emails. I do find that I now and again
need to look up some old email or some activation info for some program
that needs to be moved to a new machine.
Maybe it won't go on for ever, but I'm even prepared to run a virtual
machine just to keep it going on 64-bit Win7 or 8.


+1 !...
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Tony Sayer