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On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:15:57 +0000, Geoff Pearson wrote:
"Bob" wrote in message o.uk... On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:50:41 +0000, Geoff Pearson wrote: I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Thunderbird seems popular with many Windows users. The main thing is to keep your email client separate from your news client to avoid embarrassing mistakes :-) and is that what you use? No, I should have clarified, I'm not a Windows user. I'm merely repeating recommendations I've heard from Windows users. When I did use Windows I had the free version of Forte and then moved onto Gravity. That was many years ago so I can't comment on what they are like now nor have I seen many recommendations for them. Gravity *used to be* very good. I still stick by my advice to separate news from Mail though. |
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Geoff Pearson wrote:
I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Geoff, I agree - the email clients I've used all make ****-poor usenet clients. I use XanaNews, which has an XP-style interface (thus a tad old-fashioned) but extremely good functionality and is highly customisable in terms of fonts, colours, etc. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Interne...-Tools/XanaNew s.shtml#download -- Steve Thackery, Nottingham, UK |
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Steve Thackery wrote:
Geoff, I agree - the email clients I've used all make ****-poor usenet clients. I use XanaNews, which has an XP-style interface (thus a tad old-fashioned) but extremely good functionality and is highly customisable in terms of fonts, colours, etc. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Interne...og-Tools/XanaN ew s.shtml#download Although you can see I haven't got the line wrap set up correctly yet! :-) -- Steve Thackery, Nottingham, UK |
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In message , John Hall
writes In message , Geoff Pearson writes I confess - I've been reading news groups on Windows LiveMail 2011 - not a proper news reader. I don't like to reply to posts because it doesn't insert the proper signs. But now I've confessed I feel better and may change my ways. I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Geoff I use Turnpike but, as it's no longer available and hasn't been for many years, that's not very helpful. You might find this useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...et_newsreaders I'm also an ex-Demon Turnpike user - and I'm still using it for newsgroups. Although I've briefly tried other mail/news clients, for test purposes I've had Thunderbird running in parallel with Turnpike for several years, and can thoroughly recommend both for email and news. Since Demon killed off my email service, and I had to move to Plusnet, I'm now using Thunderbird 'for real' for emails (although I'd eventually like to revert to Turnpike). Thunderbird is very user-friendly, and has lots of easy-to-use features. There are also loads of add-ons. The one thing it doesn't have is Turnpike's ability to automatically downloads the bodies of posts, and retain them for off-line access for whatever time period you specify. Perhaps it's worst feature is the way it uses coloured bars to indicate quoted text in replies and follow-ups, instead of the usual and - but there is a fairly simply fix for this. -- Ian |
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On 13/12/2016 09:50, Geoff Pearson wrote:
I confess - I've been reading news groups on Windows LiveMail 2011 - not a proper news reader. I don't like to reply to posts because it doesn't insert the proper signs. But now I've confessed I feel better and may change my ways. I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Geoff I use Thunderbird for text newsgroups, and Pan for binaries because it stitches together multi-part posts and decodes yenc on the fly. Both are available for Windows or Linux Mint. Jim |
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:44:38 +0000, Indy Jess John wrote:
On 13/12/2016 09:50, Geoff Pearson wrote: I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Geoff I use Thunderbird for text newsgroups, and Pan for binaries because it stitches together multi-part posts and decodes yenc on the fly. Both are available for Windows or Linux Mint. I hadn't realised Pan had a Win version - I'll add the vote to Pan (which I use on Linux) |
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:21:22 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote: I use Turnpike but, as it's no longer available and hasn't been for many years, that's not very helpful. You might find this useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...et_newsreaders I'm also an ex-Demon Turnpike user - and I'm still using it for newsgroups. Many years ago in the dark days of DOS, I was a Demon user for a while, and what they supplied then was a software package called KA9Q. This peculiar name didn't seem to say anything about what the software did, but all became clear (sort of) on discovery that it was the amateur radio callsign of the chap who wrote it. Things were a lot more casual then. Rod. |
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Geoff Pearson wrote:
I confess - I've been reading news groups on Windows LiveMail 2011 - not a proper news reader. I don't like to reply to posts because it doesn't insert the proper signs. But now I've confessed I feel better and may change my ways. I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Geoff Can't imagine waiting for a PC to boot up every time I want to read Usenet posts. I use NewsTap on iPad/iPhone with Eternal September. ES gets the occasional bout of constipation but it doesn't usually last long. Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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says... In article , says... I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Microplanet Gravity. http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/ Yes, Gravity is excellent - and it's free! I've been using it for quite a while now. -- Terry |
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Martin wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:29:28 -0000 (UTC), Tim+ wrote: Geoff Pearson wrote: I confess - I've been reading news groups on Windows LiveMail 2011 - not a proper news reader. I don't like to reply to posts because it doesn't insert the proper signs. But now I've confessed I feel better and may change my ways. I use news.individual.net as my news server. Which reader do chaps/chapesses use/recommend? Geoff Can't imagine waiting for a PC to boot up every time I want to read Usenet posts. How long do you think Win10 takes to boot up on a 6-8 year old desktop PC? Haven't a clue. Why don't you tell me? I use NewsTap on iPad/iPhone with Eternal September. ES gets the occasional bout of constipation but it doesn't usually last long. Longer than it takes a PC to boot up? :-) iPad/iPhone is "always on". Effectively zero boot up time. About one second to open up NewsTap. Is your 6-8 year old PC faster than that? Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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