Best freeware news reader

[Zed Rafi]

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me some
problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE / windows
Messenger link.

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface. I don't
need any enhanced download support for binary groups. if it comes with it it
would be a plus, but i have no problem sacrifying this feature for something
with a better interface.

any suggestions?
thanks

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 21 Sep 2005, Zed Rafi wrote

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been
experimenting with a bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

Which ones have you tried and given up on?

(There's no point, for example, in suggesting XNews or Gravity if
you've already decided against them.)

 

[MLC]

mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 Zed Rafi ha scritto:

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me some
problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE / windows
Messenger link.

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface. I don't
need any enhanced download support for binary groups. if it comes with it it
would be a plus, but i have no problem sacrifying this feature for something
with a better interface.

any suggestions?
thanks

IMO the best is Dialog, but you have to choose what's the best for you.

This page gives you an overview of Dialog's features:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/features.htm

 

[badgolferman]

Zed Rafi, 9/21/2005, 12:14:58 PM,

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting
with a bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me
some problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE
/ windows Messenger link.

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface.
I don't need any enhanced download support for binary groups. if it
comes with it it would be a plus, but i have no problem sacrifying
this feature for something with a better interface.

any suggestions?
thanks

I also switched from OE and after trying numerous different newsreaders
I settled on Xananews.
http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d9xananews.htm

 

[Grzegorz Rumatowski]

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

.... (snip)

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface. I
don't need any enhanced download support for binary groups. if it comes
with it it would be a plus, but i have no problem sacrifying this
feature for something with a better interface.

any suggestions ?

Sure:

Pan http://pan.rebelbase.com/ (also Windows binaries there)
40tude http://www.40tude.com/dialog/

Greg

 

[bigjon]

MLC decided to add:

mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 Zed Rafi ha scritto:






IMO the best is Dialog, but you have to choose what's the best for you.

This page gives you an overview of Dialog's features:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/features.htm

yeah, dialog is the best...

 

[Jeff Needle]

Opera's news reader works just fine for me, and it is keystroke-consistent
with the mail reader.

 

[Art]

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me some
problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE / windows
Messenger link.

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface. I don't
need any enhanced download support for binary groups. if it comes with it it
would be a plus, but i have no problem sacrifying this feature for something
with a better interface.

any suggestions?

Sure. Free Agent.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[BrianE]

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me some
problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE / windows
Messenger link.

Tried loads, but always came back to Thunderbird. Just so easy.

B.

 

[elaich]

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting
with a bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

Xnews is the best.

 

[Klaatu]

yeah, dialog is the best...

Maybe one of these years it'll progress beyond the beta stage...

 

[miskairal]

Same here.

Tried loads, but always came back to Thunderbird. Just so easy.

B.

 

[Frater Mus]

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me some
problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE / windows
Messenger link.

OE is an abomination (IMO). XNews is good, if somewhat arcane. Free
Agent is friendly.

 

[FTR]

Hello all

i've been looking for a good freeware news reader. been experimenting with a
bunch, and haven't found one that i like.

i would have stuck with outlook express, but it seems to be giving me some
problems with it lately, which i believe originates from the OE / windows
Messenger link.

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface. I don't
need any enhanced download support for binary groups. if it comes with it it
would be a plus, but i have no problem sacrifying this feature for something
with a better interface.

any suggestions?
thanks

There is a newsreader integrated in Thunderbird. I prefer to have an
integrated email & news agent, and with it's spam filter, for me
Thunderbird and its newsreader is the best
Frank

 

[J44xm]

["Zed Rafi"; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:14:58 GMT]

i want something simple with good organisation and a good interface.

Xnews isn't the simplest, but if you work with it a bit, it's awesome. The
best I've tried.

 

[David]

OE is an abomination (IMO). XNews is good, if somewhat arcane. Free
Agent is friendly.

I have been using Agent since 1997. I feel I can no longer recommend
it as I once did since the version 3 interface is clunky and
unfriendly in comparison to previous incarnations. I doubt that I will
be renewing my subscription any more unless they dramatically improve.

 

[xxnonexnonexx]

IMO the best is Dialog, but you have to choose what's the best for you.

This page gives you an overview of Dialog's features:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/features.htm

I asked this not too long ago and got no response, THANKS FOR THE RESPONSE, this
looks like the WINNER AND new CHAMPION. Agent V3.x has killed a once great
product.

You know how to "merge" the same newsgroup on multiple servers into one
newsgroup and make it pull posts from all 3 from their web site:

Multiple server support
Dialog supports multiple servers. Though the same groups on different servers
are presented as separate groups in Dialog, you can copy or move articles into
one group, either manually or by using a filter that does it automatically. This
is a great way to fill missing parts of multipart postings from other news
servers. Dialog has support for SSL connections.

You have any idea where to set this up?

Thanks for the suggestion looks like I finally will be able to run ONE program
and ONE instance of the program.

 

[MLC]

lunedì 26 settembre 2005 (e-mail address removed) ha scritto:

I asked this not too long ago and got no response, THANKS FOR THE RESPONSE, this
looks like the WINNER AND new CHAMPION. Agent V3.x has killed a once great
product.

You know how to "merge" the same newsgroup on multiple servers into one
newsgroup and make it pull posts from all 3 from their web site:

Multiple server support
Dialog supports multiple servers. Though the same groups on different servers
are presented as separate groups in Dialog, you can copy or move articles into
one group, either manually or by using a filter that does it automatically. This
is a great way to fill missing parts of multipart postings from other news
servers. Dialog has support for SSL connections.

You have any idea where to set this up?

In the scoring and action window. Suppose you're setting the rule for the
newsgroup "a.binary.group" that you subscribed with NewsserverOne and other
newsservers, and you want all messages merged in the group fetched from
NewsserverOne. From Dialog's help:

| [a.binary.group] !move(a.binary.group;NewsserverOne) bytes %>0
|
| Say, you are using two newsservers named "NewsserverOne" and
| "NewsserverTwo". Both newsservers have the group "a.binary.group", but
| while most of the messages are the same in this group on the two
| servers, there are some that are not available on the other server. The
| first line in the preceding sample makes sure that the following rule is
| only applied to the "a.binary.group" newsgroup. The rule itself simply
| says to move all articles (since the condition "bytes %>0" is always
| met) to the group a.binary.group of NewsserverOne. If you retrieve
| message headers for this group from server NewsserverOne, the rule is
| ignored, since all articles go to the correct group anyway. If you
| retrieve message headers from NewsserverTwo for this group though, they
| will not show up in "a.binary.group (NewsserverTwo)", but in
| "a.binary.group (NewsserverOne)".
|
| The result is that you joined messages from the same group, but
| different newsservers into one group in Dialog. This is especially
| useful for binary groups to fill missing multipart postings.

Thanks for the suggestion looks like I finally will be able to run ONE program
and ONE instance of the program.

YW

 

[MLC]

lunedì 26 settembre 2005 (e-mail address removed) ha scritto:

I asked this not too long ago and got no response, THANKS FOR THE RESPONSE, this
looks like the WINNER AND new CHAMPION. Agent V3.x has killed a once great
product.

You know how to "merge" the same newsgroup on multiple servers into one
newsgroup and make it pull posts from all 3 from their web site:

Multiple server support
Dialog supports multiple servers. Though the same groups on different servers
are presented as separate groups in Dialog, you can copy or move articles into
one group, either manually or by using a filter that does it automatically. This
is a great way to fill missing parts of multipart postings from other news
servers. Dialog has support for SSL connections.

You have any idea where to set this up?

In the scoring and action window. Suppose you're setting the rule for the
newsgroup "a.binary.group" that you subscribed with NewsserverOne and other
newsservers, and you want all messages merged in the group fetched from
NewsserverOne. From Dialog's help:

| [a.binary.group]
| !move(a.binary.group;NewsserverOne) bytes %>0

| Say, you are using two newsservers named "NewsserverOne" and
| "NewsserverTwo". Both newsservers have the group "a.binary.group", but
| while most of the messages are the same in this group on the two
| servers, there are some that are not available on the other server. The
| first line in the preceding sample makes sure that the following rule is
| only applied to the "a.binary.group" newsgroup. The rule itself simply
| says to move all articles (since the condition "bytes %>0" is always
| met) to the group a.binary.group of NewsserverOne. If you retrieve
| message headers for this group from server NewsserverOne, the rule is
| ignored, since all articles go to the correct group anyway. If you
| retrieve message headers from NewsserverTwo for this group though, they
| will not show up in "a.binary.group (NewsserverTwo)", but in
| "a.binary.group (NewsserverOne)".
|
| The result is that you joined messages from the same group, but
| different newsservers into one group in Dialog. This is especially
| useful for binary groups to fill missing multipart postings.

Thanks for the suggestion looks like I finally will be able to run ONE program
and ONE instance of the program.

You're welcome

 

[xxnonexnonexx]

In the scoring and action window. Suppose you're setting the rule for the

Thanks for the reply, but I don't seem to be getting that to work

Are there support newsgroups or mailing lists preferably someplace didn't seem
to be any on their site.....