How to best read this newsgroup?

Bjórrúnar skaltu JFCBAS rista --

XNews

What's your computer operating system?

I use MT-Newswatcher on an older Mac.

There are a few freeware newsgroup readers that will make life easy. My current preference is Gravity, it's free and you can get it at:

/vic Std-Disclaimer: not affiliated with gravity or free berlin- merely a satisfied user of both.

By going to the view drop down menu in OE, clicking on current views then "hide read or blocked messages" and marking the whole news group as read after reading what I wanted to, when I check the group again all I see are new messages from people I want to see messages from..

ditto. Works better, imho, than the related YA-Newswatcher. I prefer it to anything I've tried so far on 'doze or 'nix. YMMV

That's the combination I use too. The server is almost never down and it seems to get most articles. Most ISPs don't have a very complete news feed even if they do offer one.

And Gravity isn't perfect, but it's about the best I've tried. The newsreader in Netcape 4.?? would be my second choice.

Umm, you can do that with IE 6.0 also.

IIRC by default IE6.0 has new unread posts in BOLD. After being read the font goes to NON BOLD.

With IE 6.0 you can also hide all read message fromshowing up when you load the program.

"CTRL H" will hide or unhide read messages.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (JFCBAS) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m04.aol.com:

MT Newswatcher for Mac is really good and Xnews for the PC is really good as well.

Oh and since i couldnt resist... "How to best read this newsgroup?"

With a thick skin and BIG grain of salt is often very handy.

;-)

Jerry

Sure. Get a shell account from an ISP such as Panix.com ($10/mo, includes web space, email account, news group access, other stuff) or evne a free shell account easily found using Google and get a text mode newsreader such as slrn (what I use), tin, or gnus. Newsreading speed like you've never known before ;) Just a bit less pretty.

nuk

Larry Blanchard wrote

adult entertainment in New York." Seriously.

That's probably the best way to read this group. With so many off-topic posts, marking all messages read and moving on means you won't miss much.

Mike

- who's got more folks killfiled in this ng than all others combined. Can we create "alt.wooddorkers.with.nothing.to.do" for all these OT posts?

No, it doesn't. Seriously.

It takes me to "Tom's Gravity Pages"

Not a nipple in site.

djb

no it doesn't. your browser has been hijacked. try a good spyware cleanup tool like adaware:

Since I posted that one- Seriously. NO, it does not. The link **as quoted** goes to Tom's Gravity Page. Use the entire URL, you need the index.html also. Otherwise, you get a text page of New York Stripper information.

But either way- not a nipple in sight. Dammit.

/vic

No, I don't.

and

djb

Pre-X, I used all the Newswatcher variants (VA, YA, and MT). I switched to Thoth at least a couple of years ago, and I enjoy it greatly. Much the same user experience as Newswatcher, but with OS X.

Kevin