Newsgroup readers

[Yousuf Khan]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Morten Nygaard Ã…snes]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

If you don't mind the keybord interface, and having to run in a terminal
window, SLRN is excelent. It runs fine on Windows 7.

http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/windows/

Might take a little work to configure correctly, but once thats done there's
nothing better.

 

[Char Jackson]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Forte Agent still has a free version.

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

I am using XNEWS to read your message(xp pro sp3).
Doing that because TB started to behave terrible,
probably compressing/cleaning a group several times in a short period,
becoming very un-responsive.

 

[Paul]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

Simple. Take note of the headers of people posting to this group,
and check their User Agent. That'll tell you what they're using.

I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228), with a current
memory usage of 90MB or so. On a 4GB machine. There is one sucky
bug in this version I don't really like, but I wouldn't trade
it for a version that leaks.

Paul

 

[Andy Burns]

currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks.

Try a more recent version of TB before you ditch it? You seem to be on
version 9.0, version 16.0 comes out tomorrow ...

 

[P.O.]

google freeware newsreaders- there is a few of them-- xnews, gravity,
and others

 

[Gordonbp]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

What version of TBird? Running TBird 15.0.1 here - works perfectly OK...

 

[mick]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly buggy

for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking of
removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere else.
What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla? I'm looking
for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader, of course.

Yousuf Khan

MesNews http://www.mesnews.net/gb/
or
Gravity http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/

 

[Ian Jackson]

What version of TBird? Running TBird 15.0.1 here - works perfectly OK...

+1 (in XP). I started with (I think) version 8, and I can't say that I
have ever noticed any problems with it. What is the effect of the memory
leaks?

 

[Ed Cryer]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which
don't seem too bad at the moment.

The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other
readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody
just supports their favourite.

There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to
try them all; even just the free ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders

Ed

 

[SC Tom]

I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which
don't seem too bad at the moment.

The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other
readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody just
supports their favourite.

There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to
try them all; even just the free ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders

That's why everyone recommends their favorite- there are no saints here

 

[richard]

Okay, currently using Thunderbird for reading newsgroups. It's terribly
buggy for this purpose, suffers from all kinds of memory leaks. Thinking
of removing the newsgroup functionality from it, and put it somewhere
else. What's still out there that is free and is not made by Mozilla?
I'm looking for a real reader as opposed to a binary group downloader,
of course.

Yousuf Khan

http://www.40tude.com/dialog

Old and not supported. But a damn good reader.
Also does binaries decently.

 

[Art Todesco]

I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which
don't seem too bad at the moment.

The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other
readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody
just supports their favourite.

There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to
try them all; even just the free ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders

Ed

I've been using TB for years. Now it's up to 15. Please tell me what
you mean by "memory leak". My only problem with TB is that the Theme
(Skin), for some reason, is not available for TB 15. I rolled back to
TB 14 in order to use that skin (Classic Reloaded). I understand that
TB is on its way out, at least from a new feature point of view. Too
bad as I also use it as a mail client.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Simple. Take note of the headers of people posting to this group,
and check their User Agent. That'll tell you what they're using.

I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228), with a current
memory usage of 90MB or so. On a 4GB machine. There is one sucky
bug in this version I don't really like, but I wouldn't trade
it for a version that leaks.

I've used that version years ago, unfortunately it wasn't any less buggy
than the current versions. That's why I said no Mozilla programs, since
they all share a common code base. So that would include SeaMonkey
besides Thunderbird.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

What version of TBird? Running TBird 15.0.1 here - works perfectly OK...

Currently stuck at 9.0 here, but the same problems have existed since at
least the 1.0 days. Mozilla has no priority on fixing the newsgroup
functionality, as very few people still use that. I am not interested in
going over the history of my problems with Thunderbird, I've created bug
reports and they've gotten nowhere. Let's just concentrate on finding
alternatives.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

+1 (in XP). I started with (I think) version 8, and I can't say that I
have ever noticed any problems with it. What is the effect of the memory
leaks?

Forget about it, I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't for me, just
leave it at that. If I start going over the history of my problems with
Thunderbird, it'll just create a flame-bait thread, and that's not going
to help me one bit.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I'm still with the latest Tbird. I put up with the memory leaks, which
don't seem too bad at the moment.

The problem is to find any genuinely scientific comparison of other
readers. In this group we discuss this time and again; and everybody
just supports their favourite.

There is this Wiki article, but it would take the patience of a saint to
try them all; even just the free ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders

I'm just looking for suggestions for the alternatives. I'll determine if
they are more or less buggy myself. But I won't know how buggy they are
until I try them in the first place. I've been in Thunderbird for so
long I've stopped looking for other news readers, so I need to know just
some suggestions since I have no idea what else is out there anymore.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I've been using TB for years. Now it's up to 15. Please tell me what you
mean by "memory leak". My only problem with TB is that the Theme (Skin),
for some reason, is not available for TB 15. I rolled back to TB 14 in
order to use that skin (Classic Reloaded). I understand that TB is on
its way out, at least from a new feature point of view. Too bad as I
also use it as a mail client.

Sorry, no, that just leads to a flame-war, I've had this discussion
before, and it won't help me one bit. I'm going to keep this thread
tight and to the point. I'm going keep Tbird for email and that's it.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

http://www.40tude.com/dialog

Old and not supported. But a damn good reader.
Also does binaries decently.

Too old, as the website no longer exists. Thanks anyways.

Yousuf Khan