A basic Newsreader for Usenet

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Been having trouble with Forte Agent - any ideas on a good replacement
either free or otherwise?
regardz
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Been having trouble with Forte Agent - any ideas on a good replacement
either free or otherwise?
regardz
P
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I'm a fan of Xnews, small, uncluttered reading area, multi servers, and
very slick (when you've learned how!)


mike
 
Meant Slyck didn't you?
http://www.slyck.com/xnews.php
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No, I meant

http://xnews.newsguy.com/

Though now I've gone to your reference and re-read the small print in the
Xnews homepage I see there's a link to your URL

"Another nice _tutorial_, primarily geared towards downloading binaries.
Lots of illustrative screenshots."

And the Slyck page does indicate the latest version - Egad, I'm 5 behind!
(TBH, it takes a real geek, which I'm not, to spot the difference betwwen
versions).

But I thought I ought to point out for other subscribers, where the "real"
homepage is.

I also ought to correct my own post, the "small" referred to program size,
not it's capabilities.

Must nip off and d/l the latest version....

mike
 
are these better than mozilla mail and news ? from http://mozilla.org
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IMO Xnews is the mutts nuts. Of course I'm biased, having used it for
yonks, but the main difference for me is the very easy presentation; one
window for headers and the other for bodies - no other clutter.

Some excellent hotkeys incorporated as well.

mike
 
On 20 Nov 2005, mike ring wrote
IMO Xnews is the mutts nuts. Of course I'm biased, having used
it for yonks, but the main difference for me is the very easy
presentation; one window for headers and the other for bodies
- no other clutter.
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The killer features in XNews for me is not only that, but the auto-
sizing of the two windows coupled with a vertical screen split.

Whenever I've tested other readers, it's been the lack of one (or
more) of those features that makes me decide it's pants, and that
I'm sticking with XNews.
 
The killer features in XNews for me is not only that, but the auto-
sizing of the two windows coupled with a vertical screen split.
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And I'm just the opposite. I detest split windows, and love Xnews because
it's so easy to turn off that function. Xnews is the most configurable free
newsreader I've found.
 
On 20 Nov 2005, elaich wrote
And I'm just the opposite. I detest split windows, and love
Xnews because it's so easy to turn off that function. Xnews is
the most configurable free newsreader I've found.
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That's certainly about its biggest strength. (The main problem
with other ones I've tried is that they invariably figure they know
how best to read Usenet, and leave out an option to change or turn
off something I figure is critical.)
 
The killer features in XNews for me is not only that, but the auto-
sizing of the two windows coupled with a vertical screen split.
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Everyone that uses Xnews likes it for different reasons. I think that its
true killer feature is that it is so configurable. You and I can have it
set up totally differently, to suit our own tastes. It always makes me
laugh when people try and then discard Xnews because they didn't like its
appearance or keyboard combinations. A little time spent learning to drive
Xnews will be repaid many times over. :)
 
I'm a fan of Xnews, small, uncluttered reading area, multi servers, and
very slick (when you've learned how!)
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It's an online reader not off-line
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David
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At the bottom of the application where it says
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E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au
 
are these better than mozilla mail and news ? from http://mozilla.org
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For news groups anything is better than Mozilla. ;-)}}}

Actually it depends on whether you read online or offline.
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David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au
 
Everyone that uses Xnews likes it for different reasons. I
think that its true killer feature is that it is so
configurable. You and I can have it set up totally
differently, to suit our own tastes. It always makes me
laugh when people try and then discard Xnews because they
didn't like its appearance or keyboard combinations. A
little time spent learning to drive Xnews will be repaid
many times over. :)
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Maybe we should all post screenies of our Xnews setups
somewhere. Might be a grin seeing what different people have
done.
 
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