The only problem is price. But the program's ease of use and small file size more than make up for the price discrepancy. Installing the software took us less than a minute. We found the interface to be no-frills but highly customizable. Opera automatically imported our bookmarks, and later we easily imported additional ones from other browsers.
Opera comes with a very simple e-mail client.
Opera also comes with a solid news reader that has all of the basic functionality for subscribing to, reading, and replying to newsgroups. You can view threads and change message groupings by author, date, or subject. The news reader also lets you print messages, view messages in separate windows, and reply via e-mail. One feature that we miss, though, is the ability to mark message bodies for download as well as with headers. That minor point aside, Opera's news reader offers solid functionality for newsgroup junkies.