Out of topic, sorry

[Sunny]

Hi, I know that it's out of the topic, but .. may you recommend me another
newsreader, other than OE6. I think it's not working very well with threads.
Today and yesterday I have posted a questions here, and even I received an
answers (Re: my question), my original post is not displayed. And sometimes
I receive a new messages with Re:..., but w/o orig. posts. I have switched
off the archiving, I download all new messages, but still ...
And I do not know how to sort the list of messages to see the new one on the
top, or to sort the threats by date of last post.
So, please, advise me what reader to try (if it is free, it'll be great )

Sunny

 

[Jon Skeet]

Hi, I know that it's out of the topic, but .. may you recommend me another
newsreader, other than OE6. I think it's not working very well with threads.

I recommend Gravity (or Super Gravity), which is freely available. See
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/

 

[Greg Ewing [MVP]]

Jon, what would you say are the top 5-10 features of Gravity? Any
particular reasons you like it?

 

[Jon Skeet]

Jon, what would you say are the top 5-10 features of Gravity? Any
particular reasons you like it?

It's free. (Admittedly it wasn't when I first used it - I liked it
enough to buy it before it became free.)

It doesn't try to do HTML (which I know others like, but I can't
stand).

It quotes pretty well, stripping signatures (for instance).

It's pretty flexible in terms of layout, display etc.

I can do most of what I want from keyboard shortcuts rather than having
to use the mouse.

It's separate from my mail client, which again I like even if others
don't.

It's got pretty good scoring/colouring features so I can easily see
cross-posted articles, replies to my articles etc.

It's pretty standards-compliant (passes all "MUST" criteria of the Good
NetKeeping Seal of Approval).

I tried Agent a while ago, and somehow it just didn't feel quite
right... not sure why. I tried Outlook Express ages ago, but got too
fed up with its awful quoting. (I gather it's slightly better now, and
QuoteFix helps a lot too.) I used to use trn, and that has one thing
which I haven't seen in any other Windows newsreaders (although I'm
sure it exists elsewhere) - a really *good* thread diagram, which
easily lets you see what came from where.

 

[Joshua Coady]

I have had the same problem with OE

Thanks, Jon, for the recommendation.

Josh