Newsgroups and reader programs

[James Silverton]

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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[richard]

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

 

[Sir_George]

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.

 

[James Silverton]

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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[Alex Clayton]

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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[XS11E]

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.

 

[Gordon]

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[Geordie]

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Here is a more up to date version of Xanahttp://xananews.techtips.com.br/releases/xananews-1191269/

 

[RustY ©]

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/

 

[Alex Clayton]

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.

 

[Gordon]

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.

What are you gibbering on about?

 

[Gordon]

Thunderbird can't handle multi-part files
and it doesn't recognise Y-enc either.

That's because it's a REAL newsreader not a porn file downloader...

 

[Nil]

I don't see that on eternal-september? Has it much activity?

It's there.

Fairly active... at least 70 posts in the past week.

 

[Alex Clayton]

What are you gibbering on about?

Well all 3 newsreaders I am using right now seem to show all of what I
responded too, even the much maligned WLM, so either a class in reading
comprehension or a better news reader I guess? Can't help you more than
that.

 

[Gordon]

Well all 3 newsreaders I am using right now seem to show all of what I
responded too, even the much maligned WLM, so either a class in reading
comprehension or a better news reader I guess? Can't help you more than
that.

I think you are replying to the wrong person....

 

[jvalh]

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?

Mozilla has news groups for Firefox and Thunderbird.

Here is a starting link.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Joining_newsgroups

Happy reading

 

[James Silverton]

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

There's something strange about the list If I ask for
news.software.readers after refreshing I get no response but if I use
software.readers it appears.

Thanks again, anyway!

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James Silverton, Potomac

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[RustY ©]

That's because it's a REAL newsreader not a porn file downloader...

I actually put 'porn file downloader' into google but it too has no
better suggestions. No, for any larger files that are split into
multi-parts, Tbird is a waste of time [even IE6 can handle them] and
Y-enc is just alien to it.

 

[Alex Clayton]

I think you are replying to the wrong person....

<Shrug>
Maybe you could look up some CC classes?

 

[Alex Clayton]

Mozilla has news groups for Firefox and Thunderbird.

Here is a starting link.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Joining_newsgroups

Happy reading

I tried a couple times to find one and so far no luck. May just be my
newsfeed does not carry one. I have found a web forum for it, but it
seems to be kind of hard to use. When I try to search for something it
can’t seem to find it. I suspect I am not asking the right way.