best proper news client? recommendations sought

Jul 01, 2011 16 Replies
H

Another question - what news client are the sensible people using nowadays? Is there one that


  • doesn't put your domain name in the Message-ID (in fact, which maybe lets you choose the Message-ID),


  • threads posts properly,

  • makes it easy to let users post under a couple of different identities


  • doesn't cost anything

  • lets you add additional headers if you want, and


  • doesn't under any circumstances look like Microsoft Explorer, or otherwise treat you as if you're an idiot?



Turnpike 5 is great but falls down on the first item in the above list, and also puts in an X-Newsreader: header, which I wouldn't mind if it only identified the news client, but it includes a serial number.



Michael


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T

In article , snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk scribeth thus

Turnpike 5.02 is excellent :))..

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R

Oh, no! Now you've done it!

That's a bit like asking what's the best religion, only more contentious.

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T

I presume you mean on some version of MS Windows, and that you want a GUI client?

If *not* then I'd recommend slrn or tin.

A quick Google suggests that slrn is available for windows so, if you want/like a text mode newsreader then that's one possibility.

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What, you want an actual *application*?

Surely the only true way is to telnet into the server on port 119 and do the protocol by hand.

That's the only way you have total control over it.

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P

Xananews, very configurable.

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I use tin, even now I find it *much* better than any GUI client I have ever tried. It's semi-GUI anyway as it's mouse-aware so there's very little that a full GUI client can do that tin can't.

I can't speak for slrn on this front as I've not tried it in quite a few years now.

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A

Time you looked at your own headers then ;-)

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So your reply was deliberately, rather than accidentally, unhelpful?

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M

Why would you want to do this?

I use Forte Agent. I can't claim it's the best because I haven't tried them all but it works for me.

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J

I use it as a way to identify spam sources.

A different identity for each newsgroup lets me check which addresses have been harvested.

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M

I just use an invalid address. It saves loads of hassle.

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An then what do you do?

I can't say it's ever been a big problem. I've been using an un-munged address with ES for ages and get very little spam.

I suspect most harvesters have given up looking at usenet.

Tim

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Unfortuntaly not true. I recently had to give a real email address in order to be allowed to post to a news server. Within a couple of hours I started getting spam (mainly 419 scams).

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