OT: Recommend a free newsreader?



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Donnie

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anyone?

Been years since ive been on newsgroups and back then i used outlook
express.

However, currently using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and using it for
newsgroup access is fiddly and not as good (much as it pains me to say
this) not as good as what i remember Outlook to be.

So, there must be a decent one out there?
What are you lot using?

Donnie.
 
> So, there must be a decent one out there?
> What are you lot using?

Xnews. Has the advantage that you can move the entire thing around
different computers, memory sticks etc by just cutting and pasting the
folder. It's very easy to use too.

It doesn't have as many features as others thobut.
 
Donnie wrote:
> anyone?
>
> Been years since ive been on newsgroups and back then i used outlook
> express.
>
> However, currently using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and using it
> for newsgroup access is fiddly and not as good (much as it pains me
> to say this) not as good as what i remember Outlook to be.
>
> So, there must be a decent one out there?
> What are you lot using?

I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility called
QuoteFix.

By the way, a news server faste and more reliable than most ISP's is
news.individual.net - for a small fee per year.

~PB
 
"Pete Biggs" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...

> I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility called
> QuoteFix.

Ooh, how can you possibly do such a thing. Everybody who's anybody on usenet
sneers mercilessly at OE.

(yes, it works for me too, and I don't even use QuoteFix).

cheers,
clive
 
Mark T wrote:
>> So, there must be a decent one out there?
>> What are you lot using?
>
> Xnews. Has the advantage that you can move the entire thing around
> different computers, memory sticks etc by just cutting and pasting the
> folder.

That's true for OE as well. Actually all the messages are stored in a
single file.

~PB
 
I scribbled:
> Mark T wrote:
>>> So, there must be a decent one out there?
>>> What are you lot using?
>>
>> Xnews. Has the advantage that you can move the entire thing around
>> different computers, memory sticks etc by just cutting and pasting
>> the folder.
>
> That's true for OE as well. Actually all the messages are stored in a
> single file.

The news messages, I mean, in a single .dbx file. Same for every other
"folder" too (inbox, etc).

~PB
 
Clive George wrote:
> "Pete Biggs" <[email protected]>
> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
>> I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility
>> called QuoteFix.
>
> Ooh, how can you possibly do such a thing. Everybody who's anybody on
> usenet sneers mercilessly at OE.
>
> (yes, it works for me too, and I don't even use QuoteFix).

Aren't we outrageous? ;-)

I've tried several other programs - but I simply like the way OE looks and
works the best.

~PB
 
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:40:15 -0000, Pete Biggs wrote:

> Clive George wrote:
>> [10 quoted lines suppressed]
>
> Aren't we outrageous? ;-)
>
> I've tried several other programs - but I simply like the way OE looks and
> works the best.

If you do feel the need to get yourself off the OE habit, then try
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/ , think of it as a fixed OE.

It took me ages to switch from OE, simply because many of the alternatives
are just plain ugly, or totally unusable unless you learn the 400 hotkey
combinations. I think I tried every other newsreader before deciding on
this one, and use it in combination with Thunderbird for Email to give the
perfect combination.

Steve
 
Donnie <[email protected]> writes:

> anyone?
>
> Been years since ive been on newsgroups and back then i used outlook
> express.
>
> However, currently using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and using it
> for newsgroup access is fiddly and not as good (much as it pains me to
> say this) not as good as what i remember Outlook to be.
>
> So, there must be a decent one out there?
> What are you lot using?

emacs/gnus (of course).
 
In article <[email protected]>, Donnie
[email protected] says...
> anyone?
>
> Been years since ive been on newsgroups and back then i used outlook
> express.
>
> However, currently using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and using it for
> newsgroup access is fiddly and not as good (much as it pains me to say
> this) not as good as what i remember Outlook to be.
>
> So, there must be a decent one out there?
> What are you lot using?
>
Microplanet Gravity http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/
 
In article <[email protected]>, Paul Rudin
[email protected] says...
> Donnie <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > anyone?
> >
> > Been years since ive been on newsgroups and back then i used outlook
> > express.
> >
> > However, currently using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and using it
> > for newsgroup access is fiddly and not as good (much as it pains me to
> > say this) not as good as what i remember Outlook to be.
> >
> > So, there must be a decent one out there?
> > What are you lot using?
>
> emacs/gnus (of course).
>
emacs is just so wrong. :)
 
Clive George wrote:
> "Pete Biggs" <[email protected]>
> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
>> I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility
>> called QuoteFix.
>
> Ooh, how can you possibly do such a thing. Everybody who's anybody on
> usenet sneers mercilessly at OE.

I use OE as well (with QuoteFix). I've tried various alternatives and found
them lacking.

Its big limitation is filtering, which is impossible to filter cross-posted
trolling. If a group gets a bad case of the trolls, I can swing NewsProxy
into action.



- Nigel



--
Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/
 
Nigel Cliffe wrote:
> Clive George wrote:
>> "Pete Biggs" <[email protected]>
>> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>>
>>> I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility
>>> called QuoteFix.
>> Ooh, how can you possibly do such a thing. Everybody who's anybody on
>> usenet sneers mercilessly at OE.
>
> I use OE as well (with QuoteFix). I've tried various alternatives and found
> them lacking.
>
> Its big limitation is filtering, which is impossible to filter cross-posted
> trolling. If a group gets a bad case of the trolls, I can swing NewsProxy
> into action.
>
>
>
> - Nigel
>
>
>
I use Thunderbird and find the filtering a bit limiting. What I would
really like is to be not only able to filter all messages from x or all
messages cross-posted to y but also all messages (from anyone) that are
follow-ups to that message. Don't suppose anyone knows of a
news-reader that will do that do they?

Andrew
 
>>> Xnews. Has the advantage that you can move the entire thing around
>>> different computers, memory sticks etc by just cutting and pasting
>>> the folder.
>>
>> That's true for OE as well. Actually all the messages are stored in a
>> single file.
>
> The news messages, I mean, in a single .dbx file. Same for every other
> "folder" too (inbox, etc).

Ah, I wondered what you meant. To clarify, you can move the entire Xnews
program folder about useful if you use two computers.
 
"Nigel Cliffe" <[email protected]> writes:

> Clive George wrote:
>> "Pete Biggs" <[email protected]>
>> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>>
>>> I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility
>>> called QuoteFix.
>>
>> Ooh, how can you possibly do such a thing. Everybody who's anybody on
>> usenet sneers mercilessly at OE.
>
> I use OE as well (with QuoteFix). I've tried various alternatives and found
> them lacking.

JOOI - what did you find that gnus lacked?
 
>I use Thunderbird and find the filtering a bit limiting. What I would
>really like is to be not only able to filter all messages from x or all
>messages cross-posted to y but also all messages (from anyone) that are
> follow-ups to that message. Don't suppose anyone knows of a
>news-reader that will do that do they?
>
>Andrew

Agent has the ability to ignore a thread.
 
Paul Boyd wrote:
>
> Anyone still using Pine?????

No, but I am still using Tin.

--
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of memory against forgetting - Milan Kundera
 
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:39:06 +0000, Andrew May
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Nigel Cliffe wrote:
>> Clive George wrote:
>>> "Pete Biggs" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>> I still use and like Outlook Express. It's improved with a utility
>>>> called QuoteFix.
>>> Ooh, how can you possibly do such a thing. Everybody who's anybody on
>>> usenet sneers mercilessly at OE.
>>
>> I use OE as well (with QuoteFix). I've tried various alternatives and found
>> them lacking.
>>
>> Its big limitation is filtering, which is impossible to filter cross-posted
>> trolling. If a group gets a bad case of the trolls, I can swing NewsProxy
>> into action.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Nigel
>>
>>
>>
>I use Thunderbird and find the filtering a bit limiting. What I would
>really like is to be not only able to filter all messages from x or all
>messages cross-posted to y but also all messages (from anyone) that are
> follow-ups to that message. Don't suppose anyone knows of a
>news-reader that will do that do they?

There are some,I'm sure. however look for NewsProxy (a free download)
and install it between Thunderbird and your news server. It can filter
on many things, including cross posted to more than n groups, or sent
by x.

I'm not sure if it can do the "follow ups to" bit.


--

Tim

I understand very little of what's being discussed
but for some reason it's fascinating.

(Jon Thompson, urs)
 
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:44:18 +0000, Donnie wrote:

> anyone?
>
> Been years since ive been on newsgroups and back then i used outlook
> express.
>
> However, currently using Mozilla Thunderbird for email and using it for
> newsgroup access is fiddly and not as good (much as it pains me to say
> this) not as good as what i remember Outlook to be.
>
> So, there must be a decent one out there? What are you lot using?
>
> Donnie.

I use Pan
http://pan.rebelbase.com/
it is small fast and simple

Peter

The Kiwi bird is very aptly New Zealand's national emblem.
It is a bird which cannot fly.
It only comes out at night.
It has nostrils at the end of its long beak, and
It is always poking its nose into things.



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