please recommend USENET newsreader program

[bilsch]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of
such a program?

TIA Bill S.

 

[Big Steel]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of such
a program?

Thunderbird I use on my Windows 7 machine for Gmail, Earthlink mail,
Usenet, and using the NNTP Bridge program so that I can access MS Web
forms using a NG reader with Thunderbird. It's free.

 

[BillW50]

Thunderbird I use on my Windows 7 machine for Gmail, Earthlink mail,
Usenet, and using the NNTP Bridge program so that I can access MS Web
forms using a NG reader with Thunderbird. It's free.

Oh man! I have been using Thunderbird since v1.5 and it is just terrible
for newsgroups. Light duty stuff it is okay, but if you want to get
serious, it is just awful. It is nothing as good as Outlook Express for
newsgroups.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of
such a program?

TIA Bill S.

SeaMonkey, if you want the entire suite.

 

[Big Steel]

Oh man! I have been using Thunderbird since v1.5 and it is just terrible
for newsgroups. Light duty stuff it is okay, but if you want to get
serious, it is just awful. It is nothing as good as Outlook Express for
newsgroups.

I have had no problems with Thunderbird, and I don't live on Usenet either.

 

[gufus]

Hello, BillW50!

serious, it is just awful. It is nothing as good as Outlook Express for
newsgroups.

Agreed!

I use OE + Fidolook.

--
-gufus
Thou Shalt NOT excessively annoy others or
allow Thyself to become excessively annoyed

Message-ID: [email protected] Sent at 17:27

 

[gufus]

Hello, bilsch!

use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of such
a program?

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Usenet/


--
-gufus
Thou Shalt NOT excessively annoy others or
allow Thyself to become excessively annoyed

Message-ID: [email protected] Sent at 17:36

 

[tb]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of such
a program?

TIA Bill S.

Try XanaNews out. It is available at:
http://xananews.techtips.com.br/

XanaNews has many more bells and whistles than Thunderbird in terms of a
newsreader...

 

[bilsch]

Thunderbird I use on my Windows 7 machine for Gmail, Earthlink mail,
Usenet, and using the NNTP Bridge program so that I can access MS Web
forms using a NG reader with Thunderbird. It's free.

Thanks for the info. I now have Thunderbird up and running

Bill S.

 

[Big Steel]

Thanks for the info. I now have Thunderbird up and running

Bill S.

It's nice to be able to switch to each medium with ease with one
program. You can't beat it for diversity.

 

[Ken Blake]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of
such a program?

You'll get different opinions from different people. In my view you
should ignore *all* our opinions, try several for yourself, and choose
which one works best for *you*.


That said, I'll tell you that, having tried many of them, my favorite
is Forte Agent. Don't automatically choose what I choose, but I do
recommend that you at least give it a try.

 

[Ken Blake]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email

And another point, that I neglected to mention in my post moments ago.
Many people don't realize that if you use Gmail, you don't have to use
their webmail. You can do Gmail using almost *any* e-mail program, and
I strongly recommend that you do. Web mail, to me, is the slowest,
clumsiest, featureleast, *worst* possible way to do e-mail,

Again, try several e-mail programs and choose the one that works best
for you.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per bilsch:

Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of
such a program?

I've been using Forte Agent for years.

Dunno if it's a comment on my being in a rut or Agent being a
good app, but I never thought of using anything else.

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/download-current.php

One thing I've grown to like: ASCII and HTML mode. I read most
of my stuff as plain old ASCII text, but all I have to do is hit
the "/" key and it switches to an HTML-rendered presentation.

I use the paid version, but there is a freebie. It's been so
long that I can't even remember why I switched from freebie to
paid.... but it works for me.

 

[richard]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of
such a program?

TIA Bill S.

Old but reliable.

www.40tude.com/dialog

many features others lack.
easy setup and use.

 

[Allen Drake]

Per bilsch:

I've been using Forte Agent for years.

Dunno if it's a comment on my being in a rut or Agent being a
good app, but I never thought of using anything else.

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/download-current.php

One thing I've grown to like: ASCII and HTML mode. I read most
of my stuff as plain old ASCII text, but all I have to do is hit
the "/" key and it switches to an HTML-rendered presentation.

I use the paid version, but there is a freebie. It's been so
long that I can't even remember why I switched from freebie to
paid.... but it works for me.

I've tried more than I can remember and have always come back to
Agent latest version. Not free agent but that is how I got started
with Forte.

 

[GreyCloud]

I have had no problems with Thunderbird, and I don't live on Usenet either.

Hey! Hows it going?!!

Haven't seen you in a long while.

 

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express
for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for
use with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of
such a program?

TIA Bill S.

I've used Forte Agent both Usenet and email for years and have never
seen anything better.

Steve

 

[mick]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook Express for

mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut Outlook Express.
I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I haven't yet looked for a
newsreader program. Can anyone here recommend a USENET newsreader for use
with Win7? Anyone have a link to a free hassle-free download of such a
program?

TIA Bill S.

I have tried and re-tried many newsreaders over many years.

MesNews has been my favourite now for the past five years, before that
it was Gravity. Both are free.

http://www.mesnews.net/gb/chargement.php
http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/

 

[Stan Brown]

I have tried and re-tried many newsreaders over many years.

MesNews has been my favourite now for the past five years, before that
it was Gravity. Both are free.

http://www.mesnews.net/gb/chargement.php
http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/

I've used Gravity for many years now. It has some annoyances, chiefly
some bugs in its treatment of quoted or forwarded material, but every
time I try another newsreader I come back to Gravity.

 

[XS11E]

I have been using WinXP for years and have been using Outlook
Express for mail and news groups. Now I'm using Win7 woithut
Outlook Express. I'm now using Gmail web mail for email but I
haven't yet looked for a newsreader program. Can anyone here
recommend a USENET newsreader for use with Win7? Anyone have a
link to a free hassle-free download of such a program?

I'm a fan of Xnews, you can get it here:

http://xnews.newsguy.com

Get the latest version, then replace it with the "test" version.

Why? Because:
http://twovoyagers.com/blinkynet.net/comp/xnewsrels.html

All the help you'll ever need is in the group news.software.readers

Xnews is probably the most configurable of all readers but will work
well "out of the box", it includes wonderful killfile and scoring
abilities which are essential if you venture into troll-infested
newsgroups.