best Newsreader

Hi,

Could someone plz recommend a decent newsreader. I'm getting lost messages
and think it is probably OE6.

Thanks

 

news.cis.dfn.de, you have to register with them but it's free.
http://news.individual.net/

 

Microplanet Gravity. Or anything pretty much in newsreaders.com

 

"So, Mr Slumpy you *really* are the perpetual comedian, aren't you ?" I
threw back my head and roared with laughter as Kenny continued:

Good call but the OP thinks it is his news*reader* that is at fault (though
he is probably wrong and it is his server after all).
Though how OE is supposed to lose messages is beyond me ;-)

 

Take your choice:
http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html

Xnews, Agent, and Gravity are quite good.

 

news.cis.dfn.de is a news feed, for which you need a news reader. Which is,
I think, where we started.

Eudora is popular amongst people frustrated by the strictures of OE, and
@mail (aka Access Mail or Virtual Access) also has a very dedicated
following. Take a look at www.download.com and do a search on newsreaders,
then take a look at the number of downloads and ratings to give you an idea
of which are the most popular.

 

Agent
http://www.forteinc.com/

Xnews
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

 

Well there you have it, folks. Straight from the mouth of devotee numero
uno. Xnews needs a prop! BWAHAHAHAHA!! etc... <BEG>

 

And thank Allah for that! (P.S. even before Hamster, I was using Xnews
offline)

 

I've only just this week got confirmation from a Microsoft Customer Service
guy that OE does indeed lose NNTP messages... regularly. He won't use the
thing himself for exactly this reason.

It's not good at dealing with the multi-server "farms" that many NNTP
providers use to distribute their demand load... consequently, it marks
messages as "read" that it can't find headers for right at the moment, and
having marked them "read", it never looks for them again.

Stupid but true.

Took me a week and a half of dealing with a series of totally daft and
clueless CS people before I found one with a mind and a conscience.

He actually took my complaint, filed it all properly and passed it along as
valid, without forcing me to front up to The Great Software Behemoth their
requisite $35US... every penny of which they would cheefully have refunded
when hell froze over and they saw the error of their ways.

((U))
M[/QUOTE]

 

Agent for reading and posting text messages.
NewsBin Pro for the binaries

jtw

 

I'm happy to give it one, too. X News is the best newsreader by a country
mile - for mt use, at least.

 

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:05:39 +0000 (UTC), While I was using pressure to

I vote for Agent. Although i have difficulty learning new stuff, Agent
was not really very difficult.

It is sort of intimidating since it is somewhat different than lots of
"normal' Windows programs, but it wasn't really very hard to learn enough
to make it useful. Then on a sort of "learn as you go" basis i begin to
fully appreciate it's features.

And.... even though I have been using it for a while, I still marvel at
how well it handles lots of tasks.

And... Unlike many newsreaders, Agent has the support of several
excellent NGs.

 

Too late, Max, you already blew it. ;^)

 

This is the Flibbydabby Dee service of the BBC, & on Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:37:43
+0100, °Mike° uttered this:

Oh, yes. <g>

 

This is the Flibbydabby Dee service of the BBC, & on Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:37:23
+1200, Max Quordlepleen uttered this:

I used Agent in Windows & when I switched to linux, I installed it & used it
with WINE.
I not only use it as a newsreader, but also for my email client.

 

Make that three users.

 

Nah, I'll let you all off, because I've decided it's time to get my
beloved GNUs working in Winbloze, since I'm stuck in this OS for the
foreseeable future, due to work-specific, Windows-only software.

 

Dangit.

 

Just for the record and since I started this thread, of the two readers
discussed I much prefer Agent