OT: what is a good windows newsreader

[Richard Clements]

I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as windows, I installed thunderbird (mozilla news & mail client) it's ok, still looking for something better and ideas?

[AArDvarK]

X-News for Windows:

a free reader and poster with a little bit of a learning curve. Works well.

Alex

[Doug Miller]

I like NewsXpress and Microplanet Gravity.

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[Bill Rogers]

Windows: Free Agent! if you want to receive email and have other controls, then get the full version, Agent. However, FA is the best newsreader.

Bill.

[Just_call_me_dusty]

free agent

[John Carlson]

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[Lazarus Long]

Since you've tried the rest, now try the best: Agent

you can get it at

It's not a freebie. If you want a little less full featured versi>I run knode on my Linux box, but sometimes I need to be booted as

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:40:33 GMT, Lazarus Long calmly ranted:

I paid $30 for it (after trying Free Agent for a few months and falling in love with it) and have used it for 10 years. I figure $3/yr is a good price for an excellent newsreader.

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[Lazarus Long]

Yep. Me too. I've been using for Agent 1.x for years, now Agent 2.x is out, there's a small charge to upgrade. It's peanuts for such a good program.

[patriarch]

Larry Jaques wrote in news: [e-mail]:

xnews does eveything I need a newsreader to do. xnews.newsguy.com

Patriarch

[Dave Hinz]

Forte agent doesn't suck. They even have a free version (oddly enough, called "Free Agent" which also doesn't suck much. I've never been happy with any of Netscape/Mozilla's newsreaders either.

Dave Hinz

[Scott Lurndal]

pan

is avilable for both linux and windows.

scott

[Scott Lurndal]

[bridger]

agent.

[WD]

I'm concur with you I have been using Forte Agent since the early nineties.

[WD]

It's sooo good that I paid another $15 upgrade to version 2.

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:19:51 -0500, Lazarus Long calmly ranted:

I tried the upgrade and decided that it didn't warrant the fee at all, at least not for my purposes. I'll wait for the next bug fix/feature addition, like being able to filter for more than just email address or title. I've wanted that for years now. When you plonk someone, you'd like the replies to that idiot plonked as well, knowwhatImean,Vern? Filtering message bodies is the only way to do that, and they still haven't set up for that. Other than that, I love the prog. I've never lost a database and have lost only 3 indices in the multiple-instance daily use I've given it for ten years. It's a helluva program.

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[Joseph Crowe]

I use Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 for several reasons. First of all it provides all of my needs from email to Usenet. Second of all, it's open source and essentially free. Third, its behaviour is almost completely consistent across the platforms I use--Windows, MacOS X and Linux. If you have any interest, check it out at:

[Joe]

I'm using Agent...... right now.

[bridger]

MS has made it harder and harder to do, but I remove OE completely from my machines.