Melissa, I had forgotten about 40tude. I just downloaded and set it up.

Posting this reply with 40tude.  I think I will now use this rather than

Windows Live. At least give it a good try.

Thanks for that reminder.

Danny

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:39:20 -0700, Lawn Dart wrote:

> Hello Loek, 

> 

> You wrote:

> 

>> Switching to Windows 7, I did not realize that Outlook Express is

>> not in the package anymore. So what's a good alternative?

> 

> Just about anything could be considered a "good alternative" to OE, as

> everything is relative, and OE is what it is, after all! ;)

> 

> That said, while some have mentioned Thunderbird and others (all good,

> and certainly decent enough for most general purposes), if you want a

> truly powerful news reader (with "scripting" options available to

> customize just about everything; many pre-written scripts available

> as well), I would recommend the old, yet still wonderful "40Tude

> Dialog".  I've been using this news reader for years, and don't want

> to imagine a time when it's finally incompatible with any newer OS.

> 

> I'm still using XP on this old computer, but as far as I know, Dialog

> works with Win7 as well.  A good news group to have your "Dialog"

> related questions answered is here:

> 

> news.software.readers

> 

> Here's a link to the last version of Dialog:

> 

> http://www.40tude.com/dialog/download.htm

> 

> Pre-written scripts for Dialog:

> 

> http://dialog.datalist.org/scripts/script_library.html