Forté Agent was a masterpiece. Change my mind.
Now let's not forget my 40-line ASCII-art sigfile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
I think there was even a color version of x-face? Oh yeah, found it. A 48x48 base64 encoded PNG image.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusFace
I don't know what other Usenet clients supported that. The x-face header was already not widely supported.
It could do NNTP feeds integrated with e-mail, an outgrowth of previous work on IE3-era Windows News and Mail (which was an architectural masterpiece - a Windows Explorer view of a folder full of messages, populated from the mail and news feeds)
I wish we had something like that in Gnome - processes that sync my IMAP mails to local Maildir-like folders (dynamically populated, with download-on-open, perhaps) and a view that shows e-mails. Same for iCal feeds - make it a way to view specific kinds of content.
It was the one client that never fixed their quoted text wrapping bug IIRC.
Yes.
Also, my social network feeds could benefit from a killfile feature ...
There's a wide variety of ways to self-moderate content. Andd you can block whole servers from your account as well.
And if stuff is terrible, you can report to your instance's admin (if you're not running your own). And barring that, you can also report to their instance's admin.
Given enough harassment or badness, servers can block harassing servers.