My favorite newsreader

[Bill Turner]

Don't laugh, now. I've tried a bunch of newsreaders including Agent, XNews,
and others I can't remember, but you know which one I like the best?

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

Microsoft haters are reaching for their delete key so fast they might injure
themselves, but too bad for them. I would agree OE sucks for email (I use
Eudora) but for Usenet it does the job perfectly and the price is right.
Don't even set up an email account on it. It works for Usenet without one.

When you're through barfing give it a try. You might be surprised. And be
sure to put the "sync all" icon in the toolbar. Makes it dead easy.

Bill T.

 

[Thip]

Don't laugh, now. I've tried a bunch of newsreaders including Agent,
XNews, and others I can't remember, but you know which one I like the
best?

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

Microsoft haters are reaching for their delete key so fast they might
injure themselves, but too bad for them. I would agree OE sucks for email
(I use Eudora) but for Usenet it does the job perfectly and the price is
right. Don't even set up an email account on it. It works for Usenet
without one.

When you're through barfing give it a try. You might be surprised. And be
sure to put the "sync all" icon in the toolbar. Makes it dead easy.

Bill T.

I like it too! I've tried them all at one time or another but keep coming
back.

 

[mike]

Thip wrote

Larfing??? .....Sorry, I could never resist a cheap shot ;-)

I like it too! I've tried them all at one time or another but keep
coming back.

And you bottom post too, I'm impressed!

(Just seeing if I can start another flame war)

 

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

And you bottom post too, I'm impressed!

(Just seeing if I can start another flame war)
mike

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

One of the great unanswered questions of Usenet is whether Bottom Posting is
a true religion of its own, or merely a branch of Linux.

Bill T.

 

[badgolferman]

Don't laugh, now. I've tried a bunch of newsreaders including Agent,
XNews, and others I can't remember, but you know which one I like the
best?

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

Microsoft haters are reaching for their delete key so fast they might
injure themselves, but too bad for them. I would agree OE sucks for
email (I use Eudora) but for Usenet it does the job perfectly and the
price is right. Don't even set up an email account on it. It works
for Usenet without one.

When you're through barfing give it a try. You might be surprised.
And be sure to put the "sync all" icon in the toolbar. Makes it dead
easy.

Bill T.

OE is my second favorite newsreader. After several years of trying all
the others I finally converted to Xananews. It had the smallest
learning curve and the most useful tools of all the other newsreaders.
If you haven't tried it take a look.
http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d9xananews.htm

 

[Thip]

Hehehehehe :-Þ

Thip wrote


Larfing??? .....Sorry, I could never resist a cheap shot ;-)

And you bottom post too, I'm impressed!

(Just seeing if I can start another flame war)

 

[nottoday]

Don't laugh, now. I've tried a bunch of newsreaders including Agent, XNews,
and others I can't remember, but you know which one I like the best?

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

Microsoft haters are reaching for their delete key so fast they might injure
themselves, but too bad for them. I would agree OE sucks for email (I use
Eudora) but for Usenet it does the job perfectly and the price is right.
Don't even set up an email account on it. It works for Usenet without one.

When you're through barfing give it a try. You might be surprised. And be
sure to put the "sync all" icon in the toolbar. Makes it dead easy.

Bill T.

I love OE. It did everything I wanted except allow me to run from my
USB Flash Drive. I also couldn't decode yEnc, but there are plenty of
apps to do that now. I am using Portable Thunderbird right now, it's
kind of hard to make stationery, but has kind of the same interface and
I can get my Email and Usenet from any participating Internet connection.

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/

 

[Bob Adkins]

I think the opposite. Decent e-mail program, un-usable as a news reader for
me. It grabs groups without permission, and downloads bodies without
permission. (does it still do that?) If I could get past that, I may like
it a lot more.

OK, you made a confession, so now it's my turn. I used to like the Netscape
news reader. Haven't tried it in a while, but a couple of years back it was
one of my favorites.

OE is my second favorite newsreader. After several years of trying all
the others I finally converted to Xananews.

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d9xananews.htm

Tried Xananews a while back, and was highly impressed. Was disappointed
when no updates came down for a long stretch. I will look at it again.

 

[badgolferman]

Tried Xananews a while back, and was highly impressed. Was
disappointed when no updates came down for a long stretch. I will
look at it again.

There are updates constantly and two forums where the author
participates in. In addition, some of the forum members are allowed to
help in the project.

 

[mbmack]

I love OE. It did everything I wanted except allow me to run from my
USB Flash Drive. I also couldn't decode yEnc, but there are plenty of
apps to do that now. I am using Portable Thunderbird right now, it's
kind of hard to make stationery, but has kind of the same interface and
I can get my Email and Usenet from any participating Internet connection.

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/

I'm using portable thunderbird also.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Don't laugh, now. I've tried a bunch of newsreaders including
Agent, XNews, and others I can't remember, but you know which one
I like the best?

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

Microsoft haters are reaching for their delete key so fast they
might injure themselves, but too bad for them.

You say you like it, but you say nothing about why you like it.
Maybe you're just looking to take a dig at the alleged "Microsoft
haters"?

I would agree OE sucks for email (I use Eudora) but for Usenet it
does the job perfectly

ISTM it handles news pretty much the say way it handles e-mail. What
do you think it does better with news than with e-mail?

and the price is right.

Got my OEM license for it for under 100 USD a few years ago. Is it
even cheaper now?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

One of the great unanswered questions of Usenet is whether Bottom
Posting is a true religion of its own, or merely a branch of
Linux.

Usenet and its customs predate Linux by over ten years.

 

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

I think the opposite. Decent e-mail program, un-usable as a news reader
for
me. It grabs groups without permission, and downloads bodies without
permission. (does it still do that?) If I could get past that, I may like
it a lot more.

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It's never done that for me. I have it set to download headers only on five
groups and that's what it does, period. Try again.

Bill T.

 

[George R. Young]

Don't laugh, now. I've tried a bunch of newsreaders including Agent,
XNews, and others I can't remember, but you know which one I like the
best?

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

Microsoft haters are reaching for their delete key so fast they might
injure themselves, but too bad for them. I would agree OE sucks for
email (I use Eudora) but for Usenet it does the job perfectly and the
price is right. Don't even set up an email account on it. It works for
Usenet without one.

When you're through barfing give it a try. You might be surprised. And
be sure to put the "sync all" icon in the toolbar. Makes it dead easy.

Bill T.

Um, it's not freeware.

 

[Helen]

I think the opposite. Decent e-mail program, un-usable as a news reader for
me. It grabs groups without permission, and downloads bodies without
permission. (does it still do that?)

I've NEVER had this occur! Other problems, yes, but not this!
BTW, some ISP's seem to have "favorite" e-mail progs/newsreaders
the latter they couldn't care less about whether you receive them or not,
but the former (e.g., e-mail progs) are definitely given 'prefrential'
treatment by some isp's and some have no choice of isp's due to
uhhhh.....mo-nop-oly (which they adamantly deny and have gone to
court over). In some locales, so-called dsl is barely better than dial-up!

Helen

 

[Helen]

I love OE. It did everything I wanted except allow me to run from my
USB Flash Drive. I also couldn't decode yEnc, but there are plenty of
apps to do that now. I am using Portable Thunderbird right now, it's
kind of hard to make stationery, but has kind of the same interface and
I can get my Email and Usenet from any participating Internet connection.

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/

I've had OE decode and decipher yEnc and I've had it choke on it!
Overall, based on my experience, I cannot rely on OE to decode yEnc.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Whether that unreliability
is with OE or the sender's idiosyncrasies is unknown.

Helen

 

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

Um, it's not freeware.

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Um, you're right.

I guess when I don't pay for something and get it anyway, it's "free".
Kinda.

Bill T.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Um, you're right.

I guess when I don't pay for something and get it anyway, it's
"free". Kinda.

If you didn't pay for it, watch out for Microsoft's "anti-piracy"
efforts.

 

[Doc]

Drum roll.... Outlook Express.

And WTF has Outlook Express got to do with FREEWARE ?

You, yes you Bill Turner, are one of the ones to kick the shit out of
anyone who mentions non-freeware ..... so why the f**k this post ?

I used to think your opinion was sometimes well reasoned, but now ....

Plonk

 

[Doc]

One of the great unanswered questions of Usenet is whether Bottom
Posting is a true religion of its own, or merely a branch of Linux.

Linux, a "hobbyist's" OS.