Newsreaders

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I haven't used Windows Mail yet, but Free Agent is 10 times begtter
than OE for a newsreader:

Which is better, as always, depends on you, how you work, and what
features are important to you.

I use the full, paid version of Agent, not Free Agent, so I have the
full set of features that it provides. Although I like and prefer
Agent to Outlook Express, I don't think it's anywhere near ten times
better than Outlook Express. There are things I like better about
Agent, and things that I like better about Outlook Express.

On balance, my choice of the two is Agent, by a slim margin. Somebody
else's choice could easily be Outlook Express. Don't try to impose
your standards on everyone else. Very few things are that clear cut.

 

[Steve Meyerson]

Ok, ok, I exagerated. You're correct.

I was referring to the newsgroup part of OE only. Actually I don't
care for (or use) the email part of Agent (I'm using the full paid
version too - I forget what the difference is).

The only feature I see OE better is that it allows you to create a
hierarchy of subfolders, whereas Agent doesn't (at least I can't
figure out how to do it, anyway - any suggestions?).

I think the display options in Agent are better than OE, but then
again it's been years since I switched to Agent. However the opinions
I've seen on other newsgroups seem to favor Agent.

Steve

 

[the wharf rat]

And what made you think, you idiot, that I don't know the difference between
the POP3 and a web based account?

Well, what you posted next was a dead giveaway.

NNTP stands for Network News Transfer Protocol. It is a PART of any POP3
account as well. Do you understand it or not?

Pfffttt. Pop and nntp are two completely seperate things. All a
pop account does is let you fetch mail, and not even using a modern
protocol (although I've always hated imap since those guys stuck that
stupid status message in without telling anybody...)

NNTP is the *****format***** that is used to transfer news group messages.

Well, no, it's just one possible protocol. No reason you can't use
some other, or even a simple rexec. I used to move news via an RJE link.

Again, if you have a POP3 account the messages arrive there using NNTP.

I'd imagine that if you have a pop account messages arrive via pop.
If you have an nntp account messages might arrive via nntp, but there's
no reason a news client MUST use nntp. You could present a local spool,
or even present a message store using html... Or a database, that's
actually been done. Hmmm SOA Usenet: xml and soap???


You're pretty funny, kid.

 

[john sumner]

Which is better, as always, depends on you, how you work, and what
features are important to you.

I use the full, paid version of Agent, not Free Agent, so I have the
full set of features that it provides. Although I like and prefer
Agent to Outlook Express, I don't think it's anywhere near ten times
better than Outlook Express. There are things I like better about
Agent, and things that I like better about Outlook Express.

On balance, my choice of the two is Agent, by a slim margin. Somebody
else's choice could easily be Outlook Express. Don't try to impose
your standards on everyone else. Very few things are that clear cut.

I prefer xnews because i can killfile domain names and windows mail cant.

 

[thetruthhurts]

Which is better, as always, depends on you, how you work, and what
features are important to you.

The only way OE is better thena Free Agent is if you are a blind chimp
with ADD.

 

[john sumner]

thetruthhurts @homail.com wrote in

The only way OE is better thena Free Agent is if you are a blind chimp
with ADD.

Xnews is the best of all IMOH