Like DeMon I recon you should stick with Xnews, it is the best. If you really can´t stand Xnews any longer Thunderbird is the natural partner for FireFox- http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ I haven´t personally tried it yet but have heard some very good reports. Lastly is 40tude Dialog, very highly recommended in alt.comp.freeware- http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
It just seems to be more than I really need. I found the manual I'd d/l'd some time ago, but didn't get very far in it. Your "Roundtuit" worked. I've since installed Firefox, fixed the icon problem, and installed Thunderbird. All seems well. I'm using TB for this, as you can see. I already have 9 browsers and 8 e-mail/newsreaders. My Win98FE seem to work fine, even with several open, but it's probably time to stop. Thanks all for the inputs. There have been some good comments in grc.techtalk, one of Steve Gibson's ng's on news.grc.com. Virg Wall
