Your opinions as to best newsreader program?

Hiya Blinky the Shark.

Well it's when I started comms and it can be just as humorous now as it
was then so why change?

Big point in my book. I've already paid my $29 only to be ignored for 6
years. Not about to fork out more for an inferior product for my own
purposes. That said I do have access to keygens (but won't use them for
newsreaders) but Agent is still in second place and far ahead of any
Windows competition... in my opinion of course

 

Hiya Blinky the Shark.

He's been busy recently, according to my server reject logs

 

For being user friendly, I would give 40tude Dialog a big thumbs up.

 

Did you ever ulse SLMR (SLiMeR -- Silly Little Mail Reader) and it's .QWK
mail packets, back in the day?

 

He shows up in nanae every once in awhile, usually crossposting some frothing
drivel about his "perfect C/R program, that in actuality is just another spewer.
And of course someone will reasonably point that out, and the fun starts.

"Popcorn! Getcher popcorn here!"

 

I hope to hell you're smacking him in the face with the rejects.

"Or maybe shoving them somewhere up his nether regions."

 

But there again Agent 3.3x is a further improvement on Agent 3.2x. ;-)

 

I think that the best news reader is a matter of personal opinion. I tried a
number of them in the past, and I keep coming back to OE. I find it easy to
use, even though it lacks in features.

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JANA
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Currently using OE, thinking about trying something (useful) different.

What in your expert opinions is the best to use for text groups? Thanks!

 

Xnews. Been using it for years. It's not exactly "hands off" but the
learning curve isn't steep, and it's highly configurable.

 

Hogwasher (It's what I use). Does proper quoting, coloured quoting, yEnc,
auto-combination of binaries. The only thing it doesn't support is sodding
Unicode, but I am hoping v5 will fix that.

 

Try alt.os.linux ...

 

I could never run 40tude more than ten minutes before it went tits-up. Agent
however, has never crashed on me. Ever.

 

Wow, there's a blast from the past. FidoNet anyone?

 

Basic HTML rendering is supposed to be in the upcoming Agent 4. AFAIK, it
will be an optional setting, which is a Good Thing.

 

What else?

 

I do and am keeper of the froup FAQs for a.o.l.mandrake and
a.o.l.mandriva; I haven't had the displeasure of of seeing him in there.

 

I do not support the idea of HTML in newsgroup posting, period. Usenet etiquette
say no, too. Even alt.html didn't like HTML posts in usenet. IMHO adding HTML
capability is just encouraging ignorance. A company who puts appeasing the
ignorant ahead of observing common sense is a company headed down the toilet.

But then, what do I know? I block on sight all HTML e-mail, too.

I once had a friend send me two e-mails, as an experiment. Each one only had
four words: "This is a test." One in plain text, one in HTML. The plain-text
e-mail was 3k. The HTML was 383k. That told me everything *I* needed to know.
Plus, it was virtually unreadable here, so now I just block them all.

"As always, YMMV. But now that I know about Agent 4, I also know there's *no*
chance of it ever being run on this network."

 

Arguing with Alan Connor is much akin to smacking yourself repeatedly in the
head with a 16-pound maul, but with much less opportunity for reward.

 

|>Basic HTML rendering is supposed to be in the upcoming Agent 4.

I really find that hard to believe.
"They" (Fort'e) have said many times before that Agent will never
support HTML.

 

That's a sign that he probably created it with MS Word. Seriously.