Newsgroups and reader programs

Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
especially free ones?
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James Silverton, Potomac

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On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:36:01 -0500, James Silverton wrote:

> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
> especially free ones?

Although it is no longer supported, 40tude dialog is still a damn good one.
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/download.htm

Many people prefer xnews.
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

Then there is xananews which has a few more features.
http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/xananews.htm

James Silverton wrote:

> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
> especially free ones?

Hi James,

I, also, gave up on WLM. Initially, I changed to Forte Agent, but
didn't find it a good choice. I am now using XanaNews and really like
it. It is free and very similar to Outlook Express.

I tried Thunderbird and didn't find it a good choice for me. Other
users seem to really like it, however.

Now, to answer your question; this is as good a place as any to post
questions regarding newsreaders, as far as I am concerned.

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On 3/1/2011 11:46 AM, Nil wrote:
> On 01 Mar 2011, James Silverton<> wrote in
> alt.windows7.general:
>
>> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
>> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
>> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
>> especially free ones?
>
> Try news.software.readers
>
I don't see that on eternal-september? Has it much activity?

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James Silverton, Potomac

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James Silverton wrote:

> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
> especially free ones?


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James Silverton <> wrote:

> On 3/1/2011 11:46 AM, Nil wrote:
>> On 01 Mar 2011, James Silverton<> wrote
>> in alt.windows7.general:
>>
>>> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the
>>> useless Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is
>>> there a better group than this to find out about and discuss
>>> news and mail readers, especially free ones?
>>
>> Try news.software.readers
>>
> I don't see that on eternal-september? Has it much activity?

It is on eternal-september, maybe you need to refresh the list?
There's a fair amount of activity.




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On 01/03/11 18:05, Alex Clayton wrote:
> James Silverton wrote:
>
>> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
>> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
>> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
>> especially free ones?
>
>
> test
>

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On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:05:35 -0600, "Alex Clayton"
<> wrote:

>James Silverton wrote:
>
>> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
>> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
>> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
>> especially free ones?
>
>
>test

Here is a more up to date version of XanaNews:
http://xananews.techtips.com.br/rele...anews-1191269/
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On 01/03/2011 15:36, James Silverton wrote:
> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
> especially free ones?


I would suggest you try X-news. It is a proper newsreader and handles
all posts. I too couldn't stand LiveMail so I got to grips with
Thunderbird but I wasted hours on it as it can't handle multi-part files
and it doesn't recognise Y-enc either.

Here's a copy...........
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

On 3/1/2011 10:37 AM, Gordon wrote:
> On 01/03/11 18:05, Alex Clayton wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>
>>> Having recently started using Windows 7 and giving up on the useless
>>> Live Mail, I am fairly satisfied with Thunderbird. Is there a better
>>> group than this to find out about and discuss news and mail readers,
>>> especially free ones?
>>
>>
>> test
>>
>
> Alt.test is this way ============>

Had to give the professional whiners something else to cry about. After
all why else would they get out of bed in the morning?
I have also been looking for someplace to ask about help with T-Bird but
figured if I did that here I would get a lot of “T-bird sucks, use my
reader” along with a lot of “ this is not the place to ask that”, often
coming from the same person.
So I decided to try the XanaNews since it was said to be more like OE,
which is what I know best. It seems to have no trouble talking to my
feed so I tried one response. My name never changes even though I am
using 3 news readers now, so I am sure someone can teach you how to
filter me, or point you to a reader that will allow this if I make life
hard for you.


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