requirements in writing an email/rss/usenet client?

Tue Aug 24 06:21:29 EDT 2010

In message
<eb32afd4-a231-4582-89c8-e927c2ff6f71 at t5g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, George 
Oliver wrote:

> I currently use Thunderbird + Muttator, which is a nice setup; but, it
> has some clunky parts, and I thought it might be simpler in the end to
> start fresh than try to engage with what seems to be the massive-ness
> of Thunderbird (of course, I may be disabused of this notion at some
> point ;) ).

I would advise you to use Thunderbird or some such MUA as a starting point. 
Why reinvent the wheel?