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Thomas G. Marshall
I am looking for a newsreader with the following criteria, if one exists.
Not in order of importance:
0. WindowsXP
1. Free or very nearly so
2. Can interpret /italics/ and *bold* and emoticons.
3. Can combine groups so that I can easily scan, say, both:
alt.comp.anti-virus
and
alt.comp.virus
in one place. Replies would be to originating ng of course.
4. Can place ng's into groups, and sub-groups. (folder and
sub-folders.
5. Auto-signature---and at least allow me to change the sig
before each run.
6. Colors assigned to respondent text. So I can easily see who
said what.
7. Variable width fonts possible by default, with easy switch to
fixed with.
8. super-gravity strength rules for filtering
9. easy scripting for coloring posts that are mine, and possibly
coloring ng's that contain new unread posts *to* *threads*
*I'm* *part* *of*.
10. can switch to only viewing threads that
11. can sort both by most recent thread, and threads that have
a most recent post (google-sort).
12. would like, but not critical: yEnc, html (for the rare rare case)
13. spell check.
14. can re-format paragraphs of prior respondents so that
line-length munging is kept to a minimum.
15. searching that allows me click on a post in the results
window and hop back into the thread itself in the ng. Like
netscape does and OE does not.
This is a long post, so thank you very much for taking the time to read it!
Not in order of importance:
0. WindowsXP
1. Free or very nearly so
2. Can interpret /italics/ and *bold* and emoticons.
3. Can combine groups so that I can easily scan, say, both:
alt.comp.anti-virus
and
alt.comp.virus
in one place. Replies would be to originating ng of course.
4. Can place ng's into groups, and sub-groups. (folder and
sub-folders.
5. Auto-signature---and at least allow me to change the sig
before each run.
6. Colors assigned to respondent text. So I can easily see who
said what.
7. Variable width fonts possible by default, with easy switch to
fixed with.
8. super-gravity strength rules for filtering
9. easy scripting for coloring posts that are mine, and possibly
coloring ng's that contain new unread posts *to* *threads*
*I'm* *part* *of*.
10. can switch to only viewing threads that
11. can sort both by most recent thread, and threads that have
a most recent post (google-sort).
12. would like, but not critical: yEnc, html (for the rare rare case)
13. spell check.
14. can re-format paragraphs of prior respondents so that
line-length munging is kept to a minimum.
15. searching that allows me click on a post in the results
window and hop back into the thread itself in the ng. Like
netscape does and OE does not.
This is a long post, so thank you very much for taking the time to read it!
