OT (Way off) Newsgroups readers

Bob-tx · 2010-10-31T21:13:35+00:00

I sure would appreciate a little advice from some of you more knowledgeablecomputer users than myself.Recently, I moved to Windows 7. They no longer have Outlook Express - it isnow 'Live mail', and in my opinion, it is a piece of junk, both for email andespecially for newsgroups.I went to 'Thunderbird' for email, but their Newsgroup reader is not goodat all. Email is fine and will be better as I get used to using it.Now, I want to go to X-News as a newsgroup reader. However, it does notlist Windows 7 as one of the operating systems. Before I download andinstall it, I want to know if it will work with W-7.Is anyone running Windows 7 and using x-news? I sure wouldappreciate any suggestions on a good news reader that is free.Sorry for the OT, but I know we have some pretty heads up and intelligentpeople on here, and I need your help.Thanks much,Bob-tx

Oct 31, 2010 43 Replies

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gfretwell 16 years ago

MS only likes venues they can control. Usenet, particularly the alt.bnaries groups, give the finger to corporate control.

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David Nebenzahl 16 years ago

On 11/1/2010 4:06 PM Bob-tx spake thus:

Not sure what you mean here. I have several newsgroups "subscribed" (meaning they show up in the list on the left-hand pane), and it's easy as pie to select a "specific NG": just click on it. Or do you mean something else?

And what "search" are you referring to? If you mean the search field to search messages in a newsgroup, then yes, it's broken as has been described elsewhere in this thread.

OK, valid complaint. (Since I never download from binary newsgroups this isn't on my list, but definitely a deficiency.)

Both of those are completely non-specific.

C'mon, vent. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

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Ed Pawlowski 16 years ago

"Bob-tx" wrote

Run Restore. Then run Windows update again, but be sure to have it set to manually choose what you want to install. Uncheck the Live crap and do the rest. You can hide the Live update and never bother with it again. I'm very happy to be back to the old version again.

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